Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin teamed up to detect the most distant galaxy ever found—one created only 700 million years after the Big Bang. Their research is published …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

During the nearly 14 months that it has spent on the red planet, Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, has scooped soil, drilled rocks, and analyzed samples by exposing them to laser beams, X-rays, …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

After almost 9 years in space that included an unprecedented July 4th impact and subsequent flyby of a comet, an additional comet flyby, and the return of approximately 500,000 images of celestial objects, NASA’s Deep …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their first Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-1) with the Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognition of Interaction of Atmosphere (SPRINT-A) onboard at 2:00 p.m. on September 14 from the Uchinoura Space …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Things are not always what they seem—especially in space. For 30 years, a large near-Earth object called “Don Quixote” was believed to be an asteroid. Now, an international team of astronomers and planetary scientists has …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in the Atacama desert of northern Chile has just opened a new window to the Universe, in the 500 GHz frequency band. Astronomers have successfully imaged the …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

The 34,000-acre Chaco Culture National Historical Park is home to many ancient wonders including the remains of a civilization that thrived over 1,000 years ago. The park, which has been protecting its archaeological riches since …[READ MORE]