Astronomy (Page 16)

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...

Eta Aquarid Shooting Stars, Messengers From Halley's Comet, at Their Peak

While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as...

Saturn, Ready for Its Closeup

Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon...

Watch Water Become Zero-Grav Jello on the International Space Station

If you get a cloth dripping wet in the absence of gravity...

Three Years in Three Minutes: Whirling Sun Sparks and Flares in Entrancing Video

The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be...

Earth Day: Stunning Aurora Borealis Video Highlights Just How Small We Are

The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next...

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Astronomy

Get Out Your Shades for the Brilliant Algonquin Snow Moon

ICTMN Staff

February 07, 2012

There’s no need to keep one’s eyes peeled for tonight’s lunar phenomenon—it will be in your face with the luminescent Snow Moon, which is attracting a lot of online chatter both fo...

Football-Shaped Asteroid of Love, Eros, Is Tumbling Past Earth

ICTMN Staff

February 05, 2012

The near-Earth Asteroid 433 Eros, so named upon its 1898 discovery on the same night, August 13, by Gustav Witt in Berlin and Auguste Charlois at Nice, is the first asteroid to be ...

Milky Way Has a Mysterious Twin

ICTMN Staff

February 04, 2012

The Earth is not the only space body with lookalikes floating around the universe...

Big Blue Marble Redux: Earth’s Flipside, and a Goldilocks Planet

ICTMN Staff

February 03, 2012

The first reissue of the Big Blue Marble image of Earth last week was so popular, Wired UK reports, that hits on Flickr surpassed those on the previous high record, the Situation R...

First Video of the Dark Side of the Moon

ICTMN Staff

February 02, 2012

Just as the lunar new year dawns, NASA probes have brought us video of a the mythical far side of the moon, a sight never seen from Earth...

Groundhog Day’s Native American Roots

ICTMN Staff

February 02, 2012

What does Groundhog Day have to do with Native American language and history ?...

Alien Atoms: Milky Way Stardust Detected in Solar System

ICTMN Staff

February 01, 2012

The ancients have known for some time that we are made of stardust, but now a NASA spacecraft has detected the actual atoms from outside the solar system...

X-Class Solar Flare Shoots Away From Earth—Luckily

ICTMN Staff

January 31, 2012

What NASA knows as sunspot 1402 spat out an X2-class solar flare on January 27, more powerful than the January 23 one that set the northern lights ablaze as far south as Ireland...