SUNSET: 
Planck's View of the Universe
A new all-sky map is showing cosmologists both the nearby, current universe and the faint echoes from its creation 13.7 billion years ago.
Hayabusa's Waiting Game
Tiny particles have been found inside the capsule returned to Earth three weeks ago by the Hayabusa spacecraft. Are they bits of asteroid Itokawa — or contamination from the Australian landing site?
Small-Telescope Research on Display
In mid-May, 2010, more than 100 professional and amateur astronomers came together for the Society for Astronomical Sciences's annual Symposium on Telescope Science.
Tour July's Sky! | July 1st, 2010
Watch the west after sunset for a celestial parade led by brilliant Venus, then swing south to get cozy with Scorpius. Host: S&T's Kelly Beatty. (5MB MP3 download: running time: 5m 12s).
A KBO in the Crosshairs
When an enigmatic object in the distant Kuiper Belt occulted a star last October, an international team of observers — including several amateur astronomers — were ready and waiting.
In Search of Selenelion
Saturday's partial lunar eclipse offered some skygazers the rare chance to see the partly-hidden Moon and the rising Sun at the same time.
S&T DVD Collection FAQ
Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about The Complete Sky & Telescope: Seven Decade Collection on DVD-ROMs.
Two Wide Eyes on the Sky
Astronomers are starting to make observations with the first Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii (seen here) and the LOFAR radio interferometer in the Netherlands.
A Cauldron of Newborn Stars
The Hubble Space Telescope has returned its high-definition gaze to a spectacular bubble of glowing hydrogen known as N 11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Saturday's Predawn Lunar Eclipse
You'll have to get up early — or party into the wee hours the night before — to see the Moon slide partly through Earth's shadow before dawn on June 26th.
The Moon: Damp from Day One
A new analysis of Apollo samples, using technology that didn't exist 40 years ago, finds that water (just a bit of it) must be present inside the Moon.
All of S&T on DVD
Rumors have been flying around for months, but now it's official. Starting today, we're taking orders for The Complete Sky & Telescope: Seven Decade Collection on DVD-ROMS.
A Tidal Wave of Exoplanet Candidates
NASA's Kepler mission has found more than 700 stars that seem to have planets crossing their faces, mission scientists have announced. But it will take a lot of followup to separate the real ones from the false alarms.
The Jupiter Meteor that Didn't Go Splash
Scrutiny by Hubble finds no mark on Jupiter from the impact that two amateurs videorecorded on June 3rd. Apparently, the incoming meteor burned up high above Jupiter's clouds.
Welcome Home, Hayabusa!
In a thrilling tale of triumph over adversity, the Japanese probe Hayabusa slammed into Earth's atmosphere over Australia on June 13, 2010.
Walt Whitman's "Meteor-Procession"
A team led by Texas State astronomer Donald W. Olson identifies a meteoric event described by Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass with a real event the poet probably witnessed from New York City on July 20, 1860.
Jupiter Takes Another Hit!
On June 2, 2010, amateur planetary imagers Anthony Wesley and Christopher Go both captured an apparent meteor impact flare on Jupiter — as it happened!
"First Light" for a Flying Telescope
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, has finally feasted on starlight after a tortuous 14-year development.
Tour June's Sky! | May 28th, 2010
June's nights are the shortest all year for northern skywatchers, but as a consolation you'll find Venus, Mars, and Saturn in the evening sky.
Ceres in 2010
Ceres, the largest main-belt asteroid, is well placed for observation in June through August 2010.
