Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

A Christmas Comet in the Southern Sky — The recently discovered Comet Lovejoy has been captured in stunning photos and time-lapse video taken from Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet graced the southern sky after …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Dawn Spacecraft in Low Orbit Circling Asteroid Vesta — NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta on December 13, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

‘Perfect Black’ Coating Can Render a 3-D Object Flat, Raises Intriguing Dark Veil Possibility in Astronomy — A carbon nanotube coating developed at the University of Michigan acts as a “magic black cloth” that conceals …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

CURIOSITY GOES TO MARS NOV. 25 — NASA’s most advanced mobile robotic laboratory, built into a car-sized rover named “Curiosity,” is in final preparations for a launch from Florida’s Space Coast at 10:25 a.m. EST …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

City Lights Could Reveal E.T. Civilization — In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE ASTEROID KIND — NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency’s Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

FRANKENSTEIN’S MOON: AN ASTRONOMY DETECTIVE STORY — Detective work by a team of moon-struck astronomers from Texas State University–San Marcos may have finally laid to rest lingering doubts about the date when the legendary horror …[READ MORE]