Partial lunar eclipse on Monday, no show in India
A partial lunar eclipse will grace the night sky tomorrow but astronomy lovers in India will miss the event as the celestial phenomenon will not be visible from any part in the country.
“The eclipse will be partly visible from western [...]
Rare sighting: Venus to trek across face of sun
It’s a spectacle that won’t repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.
The silhouette of Venus will march across the face of the sun on Tuesday from the Western Hemisphere (Wednesday [...]
Mercury, Venus, and the Dance of the Planets || Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Owen Gingerich, CfA For all of us, it’s now or never to see Venus silhouetted against the face of the sun. On June 6 the goddess will transit the sun, a phenomenon not to be repeated until 11 December 2117. May 17, 2012
NGSS, take one
The first public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards is available on-line — and your feedback is invited. The Next Generation Science Standards are intended to be “rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner [...]
PROBA-2:Proposals invited for the PROBA-2 Guest Investigator Programme
The Royal Observatory of Belgium is soliciting proposals for analysis of data from PROBA-2′s two solar observation instruments, SWAP and LYRA, under its Guest Investigator Programme. Proposals in response to this Third Call for Ideas [...]
Debris prompts space station crew to seek shelter
A passing piece of potentially dangerous space debris forced astronauts at the International Space Station to temporarily seek refuge in escape ships early on Saturday, U.S. officials said.
The debris, a fragment from an old Russian satellite [...]
Mars ‘has life’s building blocks’
New evidence from meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars.
The study found that carbon present in 10 meteorites, spanning more than four billion years of Martian history, came from the planet and was not [...]
From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times. Barrie Berg, the chief executive of American operations for What If, in one of the diner-style booths the firm installed in its Manhattan office. “There’s something very satisfying about a booth,” [...]
Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based observatory, and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit of [...]
Rare “ring of fire” solar eclipse to dim skies with photos
The sun and moon will align over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday – an annular eclipse that will dim the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire.
“It will look [...]
