The past weekend we were in the San Diego deserts and camped at a place called Agua Caliente. It has natural hot springs in an area of about 10 acres or so....

I keep hearing 'rumours' of something occurring about comets in May of 2004. But what is it that is supposed to happen? Are multiple comets to appear, or is...

Now Starting - Free Astronomy Lessons! I have just uploaded the first set of lessons for our astronomy course. Please...

Just to put things in a clear perspective. The first communication attempt by Mars orbiter Odyssy, this link had not been tested with Beagle as there was no...

Greetings. I expect that the information I seek is either available in a table somewhere or can be easily calculated with the right set of equations. I would...

Beside a liquid lake or ocean, what other possible explanations could account for these terraced hills? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Full...

This alien creature found Earth very inhospitable. It had to change all its features just to survive. All its great brain power was diverted to stay...

There were news reports last week that a large dust storm was growing on Mars and could become global and perhaps hinder the operation of Beagle 2. I haven't...

Our Planet Earth From Space: On this website you find 8 different views of Earth from Space, updated within the past 20 minutes. You get current data on...

As promised (for those who may be interested), my e-mail (part of which I'm posting here) from Kevin Zahnle of Ames Research Center, is probably as complete...

Let me say going in that I don't know what I'm talking about. I have read that Saturn is currently as close to the Earth as it has been in the last 30 years. ...

Does anyone know where I can take some online Physics and Astronomy courses? I would like to learn more but do not have the discipline to do it without some...

Hi ppls, *sigh* Another newsgroup to subscribe to along with gardening, bass guitar... It's all good :-) Anyway, hubby made me very happy this Christmas and...

Hi all, I'm planning a roof observatory. Made a post a couple of days ago but have more info now. And questions. The best bang for the buck seems to be...

"New Internet Portal Connects Students with Expeditions" http://www.expeditionquest.com Have you ever wanted to join an expedition to the Antarctic, follow...

As promised last week (weather permitting and it did) we have the color version of M33 taken with the 4.25" Astrograph. js PHOTO OF THE WEEK......

parllel universe have diffrent speed of light 128 168 300 299 thats how you find diffrent universe i'm from the planet earth that is the 7th from the sun...

Can anyone recommend a good-to-excellent high-powered eyepiece for a Celestron C8-SGT? Celestron's 4mm-15mm Plossol just don't cut it as far as I'm...

I saw in a "wallmart" a scope to $65 and was about to buy it on the spot, but i figured i might ask the experts for some advice first. A little picture of it...

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote: Hi oc and Scott Tis the season to get together(yes) Why can't you Scott discuss subjects that we all like to think about without...