Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

NASA’s Kepler mission recently announced the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. This brings to nearly 1700 the total number …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

DIAMONDS IN THE SCORPION’S TAIL. A new image from the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla telescope in Chile shows the bright star cluster Messier 7. Easily spotted with the naked eye close to the tail …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Europe’s billion-star surveyor Gaia is slowly being brought into focus. Once this space telescope starts making routine measurements, it will generate truly enormous amounts of data. To maximize the key science of the mission, only …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Researchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in early …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Peanuts, anyone? It turns out there’s a big one in the sky—a strange peanut-shaped asteroid named 25143 Itokawa, about one-third of a mile long and roughly half that wide. By making exquisitely precise measurements using …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

An infrared camera, which will form the heart of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has joined three other instruments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to be mounted in the nascent telescope structure. The …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Famed French Impressionist Claude Monet created a striking scene of the Normandy coast in his 1883 painting, “Étretat: Sunset.” Now, a team of Texas State University researchers, led by astronomer and physics professor Donald Olson, …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

This image of Abell 2744 is the first to come from Hubble’s Frontier Fields observing program, which is using the magnifying power of enormous galaxy clusters to peer deep into the distant Universe.  Abell 2744, …[READ MORE]