On July 14, 2015, the spacecraft New Horizons will come within 7,767 miles of (former planet) Pluto. The probe has been traveling for six years already, covering a million kilometers every day, and broke a record on Frid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/closest-spacecraft-to-approach-pluto/The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...n's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe. Astronomy wasn't invented a couple of hundred years ago. Th... ...ho left detailed written documents to explain the astronomy behind the construction of their pyramids. It tur... ...Egyptians and the Mayans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/14/ancient-astronomers/What does astronomy have to do with Halloween? You'd be surprised! H... ...have their interiors eaten out from within. Bad Astronomy Blog has a gallery of creepy astronomy pictures that appear to have sprung from our nigh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/27/a-cosmic-halloween-gallery/This unusual nebula, officially and rather dully named HH-222, stretches across ten light years of space. What caused its shape to form? NASA officials say, "One hypothesis is that the gas filament results from the w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/24/waterfall-nebula-spills-out-the-heavens/Don't worry, the Earth isn't that close! It was just inserted into the picture so you could get a sense of the size of this huge solar flare that emerged last Thursday. It was spat out by sunspot AR 1302, which is so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/28/what-this-its-just-a-huge-solar-flare/Astronomers studying exoplanets have found one wit... ...e about it, including more Star Wars puns, at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/15/the-planet-with-two-suns/This image was selected as the Astronomy Picture of the Day last weekend. It was taken by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/08/the-night-side-of-saturn/This photograph of a meteor burning up in our... ...tting the ISS. What are the odds? Find out at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/15/what-a-falling-star-looks-like%e2%80%a6-from-space/Astronomers have discovered a new source of meteor... ...s for Allsky Meteor Surveillance, or CAMS. at Bad Astronomy Blog. Link
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/28/a-future-close-encounter/These abandoned kilns in Nevada were made in the 1870s to turn wood into charcoal. Tom McEwan snapped this amazing picture of the night sky over them: Visible above the unusual kilns is a colorful star field, highligh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/27/the-milky-way-over-desert-kilns/
