Pluto Images Show Changing Surface
Feb 04
New Hubble images of Pluto have revealed that the surface of the dwarf planet changed between 2000 and 2002.
Bombing the Moon
Oct 11
On Friday, NASA's LCROSS Moon mission ended with the probe taking a nose dive onto the Lunar surface. This was all planned and was a great way to see what lay underneath the surface at the Moon's intriguing South Pole. LCROSS was impacting inside a crater that is perpetually in shadow. Such conditions could allow water ice to remain in tact from many, many millennia ago and such a collision could...
Hubble Brewing
May 07Herschel and Planck will be occupying our attention late next week, but before then, Hubble once again takes centre stage. Servicing mission 4 (SM4) will launch on Monday from Cape Canaveral (2pm EST) this coming Monday (May 11th). The shuttle Atlantis is performing the mission. There will be another shuttle on standby, acting as a lifeboat because the astronauts have no other means of...
Astronomy in a Paperless Universe
Nov 03
What is the best time of day to submit to astro-ph? Do astro-ph and ADS harm publishers? I'll be trying to answer these questions and others as I discuss the effect of the Internet on scientific papers.
Carnival of Space 61
Jul 03Mang is hosting his first Carnival of Space this week. I'd like to highlight a couple of articles from the list here, too.
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