1. The ISS. An horrific $160B disaster. An orbiting money pit. 2. The discontinuance of the Shuttle program. With NOTHING to replace it. 3. Squandering...

It's galaxy season! Spring is here, and dozens upon dozens of galaxies are within reach of small scopes. Time to get out under mild spring skies and...

Space Weather News for April 20, 2015 http://spaceweather.com High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras this week when a solar wind...

I got this in reply to an e-mail I sent awhile ago... "Thank you for your inquiry, however, Roger W. Tuthill, Inc. is not doing business at this time. If you...

The Hubble Space Telescope's discoveries over the past 25 years. 09:00 - 10:00 PM EDT

Oh dear... http://thepunditpress.com/2015/04/17/black-scientist-push-to-colonize-mars-is-racist/

https://www.google.com/doodles/earth-day-2015 The Earth turns once in 24 hours even if the road to that fact takes quite a journey through astronomical...

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Why do measurements of the gravitational constant vary so much? Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 12:25:40 -0500 From: Sam...

...almost all dwarf stars have an higth positive radial velocity ... like if its should be to flying away ...and more if farest-ones and more if hottest-ones.....

There are two separate twilight events that occur on Earth arising from separate dynamics. There is the familiar twilight event as the Sun's disappears from...

Sagan said that we were made of "Star Stuff." Tyson on "60 Minutes" reworded it, didn't give credit to Sagan for having invented it. I'm sick of this...

Space Weather Message Code: WARK06 Serial Number: 264 Issue Time: 2015 Apr 16 2328 UTC EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-Index of 6 expected ...

NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Find Clues that May Help Identify Dark Matter ...

Saturn's 'great white spots' linked to water http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2015/04/saturns-great-white-spots-linked-water About once every Saturn...

There is a great article on science denial in the recent National Geographic that helps to explain why Conservatives and Liberals have such opposite views on...

Hello all, I wonder if there are software that would calculate the rate of precession as you move through time, forward and backward. For instance, in about...

peterson recently wrote in another thread (Expensive, high-end scopes and mounts. Aimed at the rich, or the morons?) : "...astronomy is largely a hobby of...

A very, very large reason why our country is so mixed up is the transposition of personal belief into public policy, and inversion of reason into a subjective...

Explained: The Supertide That Swallowed a French Abbey http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explained-the-supertide-that-swallowed-a-french-abbey/ A...

http://www.moongiant.com/moonphases/March/2015/ The date of Easter is set astronomically as the first Sunday on or after the first full moon after the March...