749-Earth Glow(537)
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona of gas surrounding it. Scientists are just beginning ...
16 Jun 20232min
748-Ultima Thule(536)
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped object which orbits the Sun once every 298 years. The N...
9 Jun 20232min
237E-249-Tough Tourist
Rocky metallic asteroid can stand the heat.A block and a half sized asteroid makes visits to Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter.
6 Jun 20232min
747-Alone or Not(535)
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breathe and liquid water on its surface. The search is on ...
2 Jun 20232min
236E-248-Incoming
What happens when an asteroid is heading in our direction.A close approaching asteroid was observed as it passed between the Earth and our Moon.
30 Mai 20232min
746-Followups(534)
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they might return to near Earth space or perhaps even stri...
26 Mai 20232min
235E-247-Potential Mining Target
My Catalina Sky Survey teammates have discovered an asteroid which could be a potential mining target. Mining asteroids may be a much cheaper way to get the raw materials that space colonists need whe...
23 Mai 20232min
745-100 Moons(533)
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood
19 Mai 20232min
