Current Astronomy News

  • A Call to Arms for ALL Citizen Scientists

    If you’re into astronomy, (chuckles lightly), you have most likely heard of the Osiris Rex mission to the asteroid Bennu. Part of that mission is to do a sample return of an actual piece of an asteroid. The folks at the Planetary Science Institute, that wrote the software to help determine the best place for…

  • GTCC – 19th annual Fall Astronomy Day Lecture

    GTCC’s Cline Observatory and the GTCC Foundation present Our 19th annual Fall Astronomy Day Lecture Friday, 2 October 2015, 7:30 p.m. Koury Auditorium, GTCC, Jamestown The MESSENGER Spacecraft Mission to Mercury:  Surprises from the Innermost Planet Sean Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University With all the attention the New Horizons Mission to Pluto has generated…

  • Bring on the Perseids……

    The International Meteor Organization has forecast peak of the Perseids meteor shower to occur Wednesday night/Thursday morning, August 12/13, between 2:30am and 5:30 am. This is a great opportunity for viewing one of the best showers of the year, the Moon is not an issue, clear skies are forecast, and the peak occurs during the…

  • Ten Celestial Events for 2015

    Looking for things to view and have fun looking for, here are a few Ten Celestial Events for 2015, have fun looking up as there is a lot to see.  

  • Rosetta Comet Landing Nov 12

    Mission Rosetta launched in 2004 and arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014. It is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Sun, and deploy a lander to its surface. Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Rosetta’s Philae…

  • One week, one giant sunspot, six massive solar flares

    Check out this report – One week, one giant sunspot, six massive solar flares with more information at Space Weather. Marcia

  • Watch Earth roll by live in HD, streamed from the ISS

    Click to watch – “The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and uses them to stream live video of Earth for viewing online.  The cameras are enclosed in a temperature specific housing and are exposed to the harsh radiation of space.  Analysis…

  • Dark Skies in the News

    Are city lights and suburban street lamps dimming our view of the starry, starry night? Not everywhere. At least not yet. Barry Petersen takes us stargazing.

  • TIME magazine invites League’s Astrophotographers

    TIME magazine invites League’s Astrophotographers