Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

WHAT WOULD YOUR VOICE SOUND LIKE ON MARS AND VENUS? Despite many years of space exploration, we have no evidence of what things would sound like on other planets. While most planetary probes have focused …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

FORMATION FLYING, AROUND THE MOON AT 3,600 MPH – The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Earth usually has more than one natural moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter Moon, so beloved by …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

VENUS AND JUPITER DANCE AT DUSK – For the past month the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, have been an eye-catching duo in the western sky after sunset. Week by week they’ve been gradually …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

By observing the Moon using the Very Large Telescope at European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, astronomers have found evidence of life in the universe—on Earth! Finding life on our home planet may sound like …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Pulsars—fast-spinning, superdense neutron stars—are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar researchers now are poised to learn otherwise-unavailable details …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

SPACECRAFT RETURNS FIRST VIDEO FROM MOON’S FAR SIDE – A camera aboard one of NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

The second of NASA’s two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will study the Moon …[READ MORE]