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 12, 2015 0

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity at about 4:39 a.m. …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

March 5, 2015 0

A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that could metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled by a team of Cornell University researchers. Taking a simultaneously imaginative and rigidly scientific …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

February 26, 2015 0

Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter—not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry, which favors matter over antimatter by a very small …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

February 12, 2015 0

Google Inc. has given $1 million to the University of California’s Lick Observatory in what astronomers hope is the first of many private gifts to support an invaluable teaching and research resource for the state. …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

February 5, 2015 0

A new image taken with European Southern Observatory’s VISTA survey telescope reveals the famous Trifid Nebula in a new and ghostly light. By observing in infrared light, astronomers can see right through the dust-filled central …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

January 29, 2015 0

Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory (The Netherlands) and the University of Rochester (USA) have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much larger …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

January 22, 2015 0

A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening—a “fast radio burst.” The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an unknown source in the …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

January 15, 2015 0

Comet Lovejoy, already being tracked by backyard astronomers worldwide, is entering its best and brightest two weeks for viewing. From about January 7 through 24, the comet is predicted to be glowing at 4th magnitude—bright …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

January 8, 2015 0

How many stars like our Sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date has offered scientists an assortment of more …[READ MORE]