August 2009:News & Notes.
- The LRO Photographs the Apollo landing sites: Fans of this space may have noticed the racy lunar pics we ran a week back as part of our From Earth to the Moon review. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
View Article05.10.09 The 3rd Annual Great World Wide Star Count!
Tired of the deteriorating sky conditions in your neighborhood? Remember a childhood when the Milky way was visible in your backyard, such as it was in our native rural northern Maine? Now there is...
View ArticleAstro-Challenge:The Magellanic Clouds.
Ah…the southern hemisphere has all the good stuff. As we here at Astroguyz dip below the equator for the fifth time on a trip to Ecuador, we thought we’d include an old friend and a unique celestial...
View Article01.06.10: Do Primordial Magnetic Fields Roam the Cosmos?
NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have uncovered a new high energy mystery. Like our own Earth, galaxies and even large scale galaxy clusters have magnetic fields shrouding them. The...
View Article03.06.10: Do Dirty White Dwarfs Provide a Key Spectral Signature?
If astronomers at the Leicester University in the United Kingdom are correct, the key elements and chemicals that comprise life may be common throughout our Milky Way. The evidence comes from an...
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