Current Astronomy News

  • Supernova Erupts in M74 – Homepage News – SkyandTelescope.com

    New super nova in M74 click for details. Stu Williams

  • Supermoon Sunday June 23, 2013

    Don’t miss the action – The biggest, brightest Moon of the year is almost here. On 23 June 2013, a Supermoon will be occurring. What that means is that the Moon will be closer to the Earth than at any other time during the year – in fact, the upcoming Supermoon will be the closest…

  • Noctilucent Clouds

    I saw this while watching the NASA ScienceCasts video about an early start to this year’s noctilucent clouds season. Given my interests in red sprites and blue jets, I had to know. Dark Lightning: Dave Morgan

  • Sunset Triangle – May 23 2013

    Check out something cool to see at sunset

  • Recent New Zealand daylight meteor?

    From Dave Morgan, From Dr. Steve Kerr, expatriate Winston-Salem native and former FAS Secretary, who now lives in Dunedin, NZ sends this daylight meteor report. Check out the details Full screenshots provided below  

  • Chelyabinsk Meteor (02.15.13) – informational weblinks

    From Jeff Poplin – NASA revises (upward) preliminary estimates: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html UMSF forum pages about the event: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5524&st=285 Lots of good comments from knowledgeable folks… Interesting link used by one poster to estimate impact effects: http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ Phil Plait’s update: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/russian_meteorite_fragment_may_have_fallen_in_frozen_lake.html Meteosat-9 images showing contrail shadow on ground! First pics I’ve seen of possible fragments. http://74.mvd.ru/news/item/845855/ (need…

  • 1913 Great Meteor Procession

    On 2/8/2013 11:16 PM David Morgan wrote: This is wild: 1913 Great Meteor Procession I like the temporary orbit hypothesis. Indeed! Extraordinary event. What I find peculiar is the reports of the bright, star-like object seen during the middle of the display. “Several report that near the middle of the great procession was a fine…

  • ScienceCasts: A Naked-Eye Comet in March 2013

    Comet Panstarr Coming in March 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlenAvqLCI

  • Occultation Alert

    Attention Occultation Alert  How many of us have seen a star occulted by an asteroid? It is kind of like watching a solar eclipse but in miniature, it is the passing of an asteroid in front of a star. This one occurs in the constelation of Auriga. On Friday Feb. 22, 2013 at 02:25UT (09:25pm…