Category: Current Astronomy News
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Perseids Meteor Shower – August 12-13, 2023
One of the year’s best meteor showers will take place on the night of Saturday, August 12 and into the morning of Sunday, August 13.…
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2023 Supermoons
According to the folks at EarthSky (and they checked with Fred Espenak, formerly of NASA) there will be four successive Supermoons this year on July…
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Asteroid Day – Friday, June 30, 2023
66 million years ago, asteroid day wasn’t much fun for the dinosaurs. Just recently, there was another article about an asteroid having a close encounter…
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Total Lunar Eclipse – Morning of Tuesday November 8, 2022
It’s the dark side of the Moon! No, wait! It’s actually the light side of the Moon and a Full Moon! But there’s more! The…
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A Call to Arms for ALL Citizen Scientists
If you’re into astronomy, (chuckles lightly), you have most likely heard of the Osiris Rex mission to the asteroid Bennu. Part of that mission is…
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GTCC – 19th annual Fall Astronomy Day Lecture
GTCC’s Cline Observatory and the GTCC Foundation present Our 19th annual Fall Astronomy Day Lecture Friday, 2 October 2015, 7:30 p.m. Koury Auditorium, GTCC, Jamestown…
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Bring on the Perseids……
The International Meteor Organization has forecast peak of the Perseids meteor shower to occur Wednesday night/Thursday morning, August 12/13, between 2:30am and 5:30 am. This…
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Rosetta Comet Landing Nov 12
Mission Rosetta launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a…
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One week, one giant sunspot, six massive solar flares
Check out this report – One week, one giant sunspot, six massive solar flares with more information at Space Weather. Marcia
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Watch Earth roll by live in HD, streamed from the ISS
Click to watch – “The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and…
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Dark Skies in the News
Are city lights and suburban street lamps dimming our view of the starry, starry night? Not everywhere. At least not yet. Barry Petersen takes us…
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