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Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse Viewer’s Guide
Skywatchers in the right location on Earth will get a front row seat to watch the full moon get painted red in the last total lunar eclipse until 2025. The perfect alignment of the Sun, Earth and Moon creates one of nature’s most eye-catching phenomena that allows all of Earth’s sunrises and sunsets to be […]
Amazing Footage of Space X Falcon Heavy Sticking Double Booster Landing
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket system, the world’s most-powerful , launched onTuesday after three years hiatus from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, delivering military satellites into orbit. Check out this amazing video footage of the booster double landing captured nearby. Sheesh! Falcon Heavy dual-RTLS never gets old! 🚀 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/Utib3JeLYf — Chance Belloise (@chancebelloise) November 1, 2022 SpaceX […]
Friday Find October 28 2022
Join National Geographic’s Andrew Fazekas, the Night Sky Guy for his personal picks of space news this week.
Meteor Shakes Mars and Creates Crater
NASA’s Insight lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the yawning new crater from space. NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest […]
The Night Sky This Week October 24 2022
Join National Geographic’s Andrew Fazekas for his top stargazing picks of the week.
Stunning Reveal of Iconic Pillars of Creation by Webb
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and […]
The Stuph File Interview: DART Mission Smashes into Asteroid, Hubble, Spacex and Mars Helicopter
Check out my October appearance on The Stuph File radio show with host Peter Anthony Holder. In this episode we talk about the successful collision of a vending sized spacecraft with an asteroid and what this means for protection of our planet from wayward asteroids and comets in the future. We also chat about SpaceX, […]
The Night Sky This Week October 17 2022
Join National Geographic columnist and Night Sky Guy Andrew Fazekas for his top stargazing picks for this week
Hubble Shows Off Violent Starbirth
The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig–Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts. Both objects are in the constellation Orion and lie around 1250 light-years from Earth. HH 1 is the luminous cloud above the bright star in the upper right of this image, […]
Blood Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse Viewer’s Guide
Skywatchers in the right location on Earth will get a front row seat to watch the full moon get painted red in the last total lunar eclipse until 2025. The perfect alignment of the Sun, Earth and Moon creates one of nature’s most eye-catching phenomena that allows all of Earth’s sunrises and sunsets to be […]
Amazing Footage of Space X Falcon Heavy Sticking Double Booster Landing
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket system, the world’s most-powerful , launched onTuesday after three years hiatus from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, delivering military satellites into orbit. Check out this amazing video footage of the booster double landing captured nearby. Sheesh! Falcon Heavy dual-RTLS never gets old! 🚀 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/Utib3JeLYf — Chance Belloise (@chancebelloise) November 1, 2022 SpaceX […]
Friday Find October 28 2022
Join National Geographic’s Andrew Fazekas, the Night Sky Guy for his personal picks of space news this week.
Meteor Shakes Mars and Creates Crater
NASA’s Insight lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the yawning new crater from space. NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest […]
The Night Sky This Week October 24 2022
Join National Geographic’s Andrew Fazekas for his top stargazing picks of the week.
Stunning Reveal of Iconic Pillars of Creation by Webb
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and […]
The Stuph File Interview: DART Mission Smashes into Asteroid, Hubble, Spacex and Mars Helicopter
Check out my October appearance on The Stuph File radio show with host Peter Anthony Holder. In this episode we talk about the successful collision of a vending sized spacecraft with an asteroid and what this means for protection of our planet from wayward asteroids and comets in the future. We also chat about SpaceX, […]
The Night Sky This Week October 17 2022
Join National Geographic columnist and Night Sky Guy Andrew Fazekas for his top stargazing picks for this week
Hubble Shows Off Violent Starbirth
The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig–Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts. Both objects are in the constellation Orion and lie around 1250 light-years from Earth. HH 1 is the luminous cloud above the bright star in the upper right of this image, […]