SUNSET: 
Earth's Coldest Star Party
One of the most inhospitable places on Earth might also be one of the best places to do astronomy.
Long-Lived SOHO Celebrates A Milestone
The IMAGE_1 tag will be replaced by an image that is refererenced in the ARTICLE IMAGE list. To separate paragraphs, use the P tag. This is the main article text. You should replace these blocks of text with your own content.
Astro Image in the News: Spitzer Spies Monoceros Nebulosities
The Spitzer Space Telescope has produced a magnificent mosaic of the Christmas Tree Cluster.
Long-Lived SOHO Celebrates a Milestone
The IMAGE_1 tag will be replaced by an image that is refererenced in the ARTICLE IMAGE list. To separate paragraphs, use the P tag. This is the main article text. You should replace these blocks of text with your own content.
Mars News, True and False
It's unkillable! A two-year old e-mail chain letter is misleading people into expecting Mars to go nuts in August.
~Black Hole Mass Measurement
Even though it is nearly 100-million light-years distant in the constellation Ursa Major, this Seyfert type galaxy named NGC 3516 has been observed to have a super-massive black hole lurking within it estimated to be over 10-million times the mass of the Sun.HST/ UCLA/ M. Malkan The IMAGE_1 tag will…
New Light on Dark Energy
The IMAGE_1 tag will be replaced by an image that is refererenced in the ARTICLE IMAGE list. To separate paragraphs, use the P tag. This is the main article text. You should replace these blocks of text with your own content.
Giant Telescopes of the Future
Telescopes as large as 20, 30, and even 100 meters are now on the drawing boards.
New Amateur Asteroid Awards
Congress has established $2,000 annual prizes for U.S. amateurs who discover near-Earth asteroids or aid asteroid research.
Binary Quasar Is No Illusion
A close pair of quasars in Pisces turns out just that, not the record-breaking gravitational lens that astronomers had hoped.
Asteroid Flyby Caught!
On July 3, 2006, an 800-meter (half-mile) asteroid called 2004 XP14 flew past Earth at a distance a little greater than that of the Moon.
Black Hole Booted from Galaxy
A black hole now zipping through Ursa Major might have been dropkicked out of the galactic disk by an asymmetrical supernova.
Hubble's Back — and Better Than Ever?
The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera is back online, almost two weeks after a problem with its power supply forced it into safe mode.
Sunday Night's Flyby of Asteroid 2004 XP14
A small asteroid will brighten to 11th magnitude as it passes close by Earth. Here's how to find it.
Hubble, Hubble: Toil and Trouble
The Hubble Space Telescope’s main camera went offline on June 19th, when a problem with its power supply forced it into safe mode.
Moon and Planets Parade at Dusk
Four of our solar system's bright planets are putting on a parade at dusk during the last week of June 2006, joined by the thin crescent Moon.
Naming Pluto's Moons
The cast of underworld characters in the outer solar system expanded by two as the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially named Pluto's two smallest moons Nix and Hydra.
Minor Planets Stick Together
In January 2006, astronomers focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an icy rock near the orbit of Uranus — and found twins.
Norway Impact Gentler Than Atomic Bomb
This 212-gram fragment of the Park Forest meteorite fall grazed a yellow fire hydrant as it fell to Earth. News outlets reported last week that a meteorite struck a mountainside in Norway, releasing as much energy as the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Now researchers are reporting the first data from the…
The Amazing Somersaulting Satellite
A rising blob inside Saturn's moon Enceladus might be responsible for many of the satellite's bizarre aspects, including water geysers, an enigmatic "tiger stripe" pattern of warm ribbons, and perhaps even a planetary somersault, two researchers propose in the June 1st Nature. Planetary scientists have known since the Voyager flybys…
