Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

U.S. High-School Students Help Space Scientists Recover Spacecraft in Australia: For millions of American high-school students, early June means long hours studying for final exams. But for three lucky teenagers, getting a passing grade in …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery In his landmark collection Leaves of Grass, famed poet Walt Whitman wrote of a “strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads…” For decades, scholars …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Astronomy from an Airplane? A New Way of Looking Up Can you imagine a telescope the size of Mount Wilson Observatory’s 100-inch, doing astronomy from a Boeing 747 jetliner? It happened on May 26, when …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Phoenix Mars Lander Does Not Phone Home NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful. A new image transmitted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), looking down …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Setting Sail for the Stars – The spring winds gusting across the Southland today almost had me grumbling about wind chill and such—but instead, the wind-pressure at my back suddenly brought a flood of pleasant …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

NASA’s New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our Sun’s …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Long-Lost Soviet Reflector Found on Moon A team of physicists led by a professor at UC San Diego has pinpointed the location of a long-lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by the Soviet …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

‘This Planet Tastes Funny,’ According to Spitzer Telescope NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet—it lacks methane, an ingredient common to many of the planets in our solar system. “It’s …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Sun Fire, Moon Ice, Westchester Stars An international team of solar and space scientists have built the most complete picture yet of the full impact of large solar eruptions called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) as …[READ MORE]