The FBI and police are reportedly investigating three incidents in which powerful laser beams were aimed at commercial planes headed into Honolulu...

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Huge sunspot group alert!! If you're a fancier of Sol aka Marty, get your solar filter equipped telescopes/arses out there now! I got my Quantum 4 outside...

I am in the market for my first apo refractor. I have been a C8/Dob boy for a long time, but I have had to move closer to the city, so my primary observing is...

So I'm looking at chinese telescopes on the web, mainly because I can't get a date, and I see this...

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How much has the Polar Shift caused by the recent 9.0 earthquake affected the circa 2000 star charts? Jerry

I saw the picture released in "true color" that looked similar to Mars (with maybe a little more "weathered" rocks). My question is about the brightness. ...

I don't suppose anyone out there has come across this issue have they? I follow the instructions implicitly and once the alignment is complete (any option - 1...

1. What stops the probe from tumbling before the first chute opens? 2. Why is the heat shield made of sections that are all slightly...

"January 13, 2005 | In a move that caught the astronomical community by surprise, today Imaginova Corp. announced its purchase of Orion Telescopes &...

thanks John. John Steinberg wrote: By Michael Coren (CNN) -- The first image from the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan shows a rock-strewn...

Is 32kb as large as they are going to be, even full rez? That's pretty tiny. -Rich

I hope this will turn out to be to our benefit. http://www.imaginova.com/newsroom/release.php?id=050113 IMAGINOVA™ CORP. ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF ORION...

A little OT maybe, but take a look anyway: http://balder.prohosting.com/avtanski/tmp/abcnews.html Way to go, ABC News! - Alex P.S. Sorry if this posting is...

Actually, it's about the size of Jupiter. Pretty impressive. If you have any kind of safe solar filter, you should take a look at it. Brian Tung...

NASA TV: Huygens' has survived its landing for at least 1.5 hours http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram We are in a blind spot right now...

Remember the "Face on Mars" ? Brace yourselves for the "Face on Titan" ! http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html Deborah Remove "&mizar" to respond

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/n/323/1N156861737EFF4000P0605L0M1.JPG Any ideas on what that could be? It's not in the shots taken shortly before...

In a TV interview on BBC early this AM - Dr Martin Tomasko who is DISR Principal Investigator mentioned that they would have had about 700 photos/images but...