Skytalk Archive

Autumnal Equinox arrives at 10:29 pm Monday, 9/22. Since it takes quite a bit of time for water to heat up, it also tak ...

Wednesday’s full moon is this year’s Harvest Moon – way out ahead of Autumnal Equinox by 14 days. Nex ...

For the first time – scientists have identified a second generation star – one made up of the remnants of the earliest stars ...

The Mars Rover Curiosity has spent now one Martian year on Mars (which equals two Earth years), traveled 5.5 miles and taken over 178,000 ...

Close planet conjunction – Jupiter and Venus very close in tomorrow’s pre-dawn sky . Watch the moon slide down to join them t ...

The annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks early this week. The Rosetta spacecraft, now in orbit around Comet Churyumov-Gerisimenko after a 1 ...

Count of geysers seen on Saturn’s moon Enceladus up to over 100 – No question about composition of jets, definitely water as ...

Amount of daylight is slowly receding. . . Sunset was at 8:33, now it’s 8:22; Sunrise is 5:52, was 5:33. We’ll really feel th ...

Supermoon? – Ridiculous! Invented by Astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. Difference in size between these full moons and other full m ...

Wednesday marks the 45th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 carrying the first humans to another celestial body. Buzz Aldrin is askin ...

Orbital Carbon Observatory-2- now in orbit will help scientists better understand Earth’s carbon cycle, identifying natural and man ...

Cassini Celebrates its 10th year at Saturn – will continue to explore until 2017 when it’ll plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere. Frankl ...

Penn State Astronomers figure out why near side and far side of the moon are so different – front side, maria: large smooth areas w ...

Summer Solstice. Sun at Solar Max – although it’s one of the most minimal maxes seen in decades. Cycles last 9- 14 years. Pro ...

The Equasion of Time is coming (solar noon = clock noon) – Derrick explains. Cast your net; a design is already i ...