Space Station Threshold

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a rock the night weekend? Then come along as you won't need a telescope to watch the movement of the planets and the Perseid meteor shower heating up your evenings! If you'd still like a challenge, then why not chase bright asteroid Ceres with binoculars – or look [...]

According to AAVSO Special Notice #212: "Hiroshi Matsuyama (MTH), Kanimbla, Queensland, Australia, reports and Rod Stubbings (SRX), Tetoora Road, Victoria, Australia, confirms that the SU UMa-type dwarf nova QZ Vir (formerly called T Leo) is in outburst, and possibly in superoutburst." (...)Read the rest of Bright Outburst of QZ Virginis ...

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Hopefully the rains have passed in your area and you're ready for some dark skies and a double-dip… Double stars that is! This weekend we'll take a look at some of the most colorful and interesting binary stars of the summer. Need more? Then hang tight as we take a look at [...]

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! If we can keep the clouds and rain away, this will be an incredible weekend to enjoy some peaceful and relaxing time under the Moon and stars. We'll begin with a heads up on a partial lunar eclipse whose beginning – or end – will be visible to most of us. Check [...]

How do you study an extremely small planetary body in the dim outer reaches of our solar system? Get all your friends from around the world to wait for a very elusive – if not short-lived – special event. And in doing so, you may find something completely unexpected. Enter James Elliot from MIT. Elliot [...]

Greetings, fellow Stargazers! Have you been enjoying the rain? Then keep your eyes open for a "celestial shower" as meteoritic activity picks up over the next few nights, culminating in the peak of the Ophiuchid meteor Saturday night through Sunday morning. While you're out relaxing, be sure to spare some time for lunacy and take ...

It's summer (well, OK, technically next week it is summer) but it's the the time of year that northern latitudes can see the beautiful, awe inspiring atmospheric phenomena called Noctilucent Clouds, or night shining clouds. They aren't like regular cumulus or cirrus clouds, but are mysterious and unique high atmosphere cloud ...

The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in the first 43 days of the spacecraft's observations. "This is the biggest release of candidate planets that has ever happened," said William Borucki, Kepler's lead scientist. "The number of candidate planets ...

The world watched and waited for the Hayabusa spacecraft to make its return to Earth on June 13, 2010 and the people of Japan — who built and launched the little spacecraft that could (and did!) — were especially hopeful in watching and waiting. Japan's Subaru Telescope (although located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii) [...]

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Sorry to be so late, but satellite internet connections and electrical storms don't mix! Even though there's not a snowball's chance in the desert of observing here tonight, don't let that stop you from enjoying some of the finest galaxies you'll ever trip the light fantastic with! Find ...