Bob Eklund

Adventures of a Mount Wilson Telescope Operator – A Research Technician for Mount Wilson Observatory’s CHARA Array, PJ Sallave-Goldfinger gives …[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 …[READ MORE]

When Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a …[READ MORE]

Wasted Lights and Wasted Nights: Globe at Night Tracks Light Pollution Poorly aimed and unshielded outdoor lights are more than …[READ MORE]

MESSENGER Spacecraft Enters Mercury Orbit After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system and six planetary flybys, …[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 …[READ MORE]

Is the Sun’s Heat Output Changing? NASA’s Glory Mission Intends to Find Out – Rocket Also Carries Tiny Student-Built Satellite …[READ MORE]

NASA Releases Images of Man-Made Crater on Comet – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a …[READ MORE]

NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size …[READ MORE]

Sark Becomes World’s First Dark Sky Island (A Good Place for Looking Up…) The Channel Island of Sark has been …[READ MORE]