Astronomy (Page 5)

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

Maya from the Inside: The 13 Bak´tun as Challenge to the Western Mind, See NMAI Webcast Here

ICTMN Staff

December 15, 2012

The time for worrying about the apocalypse is long over, and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is here to tell us why...

Bak'tun 13 Festival: Maya Calendar Tradition and the Way of Life, Webcast Here From the National Museum of the American Indian

ICTMN Staff

December 15, 2012

The belief held by many that the world is going to end on Friday December 21, 2012, is yet another in the long list of misconceptions of Indigenous Peoples and does no one any favo...

Mayan Festival at National Museum of the American Indian Celebrates Bak’tun, Dispels Misconceptions About 12-21-12

ICTMN Staff

December 14, 2012

What NASA is debunking with science, indigenous groups are debunking with information about what the Mayans actually predicted...

Apocalypse Not: NASA Video Explains 10 Days Early 'Why the World Didn't End Yesterday'

ICTMN Staff

December 13, 2012

A wimpy solar cycle, a nonexistent rogue planet and the deep astronomical insights of the Mayan calendar itself have spurred NASA to release a video—10 days before the supposed apo...

Thrilling Geminids, Plus a Possible Bonus New Meteor Shower, Set Sky Ablaze

ICTMN Staff

December 12, 2012

With all the buzz about the upcoming Mayan Apocalypse (a.k.a. the winter solstice) of December 21, the Geminid meteor shower threatens to be lost in the shuffle...

Moon Gets Sly in the Sky With Saturn, 'Lord of the Rings'

ICTMN Staff

December 09, 2012

For most of this year we’ve watched Venus and its various assignations as the planet of love (or war, according to ancient Mayan beliefs) has gotten cozy with the moon, Jupiter, th...

Big Black Marble: From Turtle Island Electric to Australian Wildfires, Mother Earth Glitters in the Dark

ICTMN Staff

December 06, 2012

She sparkles and shimmers when the sun goes down. We have always known this intuitively about our Mother Earth, but now we’ve got shots from space to prove it...

Non-Apocalypse: U.S. Government Assures Everyone That the World Will Live to See the Fiscal Cliff

ICTMN Staff

December 05, 2012

The fiscal cliff notwithstanding, the U.S...

Sacred Site Defender, Ola Cassadore Davis, Walks On

Alysa Landry

December 04, 2012

Ola Cassadore Davis, an outspoken defender of the Apache Nation’s sacred Mount Graham in southeast Arizona, walked on Sunday, November 25. She was 89...

December 1 Brings Countdown to Non-Apocalypse

ICTMN Staff

December 01, 2012

It’s December 1, 2012, and many around the world are counting down to the purported Mayan Apocalypse, the end of the indigenous group’s Long Count calendar...