Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Bob Eklund has had a lifelong love affair with the sky, having been raised by a grandfather working at a major astronomical observatory in Wisconsin. For many years he has helped the Mount Wilson Observatory with their public education and outreach programs. Bob is the author of a book of poetry and essays about astronomy, First Star I See Tonight. Following a corporate career as an editor and business communicator, he now assists local residents with their business and personal writing/editing/proofreading needs. See www.bobeklund.com.

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up- Bob Eklund

March 24, 2011 0

Wasted Lights and Wasted Nights: Globe at Night Tracks Light Pollution Poorly aimed and unshielded outdoor lights are more than an annoyance. They waste more than $2 billion (17 billion kilowatt-hours) of energy in the …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

March 18, 2011 0

MESSENGER Spacecraft Enters Mercury Orbit After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system and six planetary flybys, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft was scheduled to move into orbit around the planet Mercury on March …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

March 10, 2011 0

Scientists Study 4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite– Scientists have performed a microprobe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-size piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

March 3, 2011 0

Planet Formation in Action — Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

February 24, 2011 0

Is the Sun’s Heat Output Changing? NASA’s Glory Mission Intends to Find Out – Rocket Also Carries Tiny Student-Built Satellite — A University of Colorado Boulder instrument for studying changes in the Sun’s brightness and …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

February 10, 2011 0

NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

February 3, 2011 0

Sark Becomes World’s First Dark Sky Island (A Good Place for Looking Up…) The Channel Island of Sark has been recognized for the quality of its night sky by the International Dark-sky Association (IDA), which …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

January 27, 2011 0

NASA’s Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14. The mission will allow scientists for the first time to look for changes on a comet’s surface that occurred following …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

January 20, 2011 0

New Telescope Explores Solar System “Outback” In the outer reaches of our solar system lies a mysterious region far more remote and difficult to explore than the Australian outback. It remains the only part of …[READ MORE]