Bob Eklund

Adventures of a Mount Wilson Telescope Operator – A Research Technician for Mount Wilson Observatory’s CHARA Array, PJ Sallave-Goldfinger gives an informative talk on the adventurous undertaking of running this coordinated array of six telescopes. …[READ MORE]

Getting Ready for the World’s Biggest-Ever Telescope – Plans for the world’s biggest telescope—the Square Kilometer Array—advanced significantly this month with a decision to locate the project office at Jodrell Bank Observatory near Manchester, England; …[READ MORE]

When Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a moving pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as NASA’s …[READ MORE]

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]

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]

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]

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]

NASA Releases Images of Man-Made Crater on Comet – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has …[READ MORE]

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]

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]