MoonMappers at #NLSF2012
We’ve been hard at work over the last few weeks processing all the data from over 1000 of you volunteers so far. These data have been used to create a poster presentation that has been hanging in the...
View ArticleNow Introducing: Mercury Mappers
It’s here! A brand new citizen science project! Everyone, welcome Mercury Mappers to our happy family. Technically, it is still in “beta” which means that all the site content isn’t in place, but we...
View ArticleThe Dance of Jupiter and the Moon
A couple of times a year, the Moon travels across in front of the planet Jupiter. This occurs as the plane of the solar system is roughly in line with the orbit of our moon, but each planet and the...
View ArticleSidewalk Astronomy in Ngliman, Indonesia
Hi, I’m Avivah from Indonesia. I live in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. This is “officially my first story in Cosmoquest blog”. It’s a story about my trip to East Java ( I live in West Java). My trip...
View ArticleBuilding a HUGE Telescope
Big science means big collaborations these days. Often, it takes many institutions and partners to probe the Universe deeper than ever before. Astronomy has been moving into the arena already occupied...
View ArticleCarnival of Space #379
Welcome to another round of the Carnival of Space! This is week 379, so settle in for a round-up of this week’s space science and astronomy news. Credit: ESA/ROSETTA/NAVCAM We are of course, all...
View ArticlePoems in the heavens
The Great Comet of 1577, from a contemporary woodcut by Jiri Daschitzsky. [Source: The Galileo Project]Poetry is an ancient art, certainly predating written language. From the beginning, poets have...
View ArticleIntroducing the Partners: The Planetary Science Institute
The Planetary Science Institute studies the origin, characteristics and evolution of our solar system, including Earth, and the origin, characteristics, and evolution of the planetary systems of other...
View ArticleCarnival of Space #456
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Zain Husain at the Brownspaceman.com blog. Check out this week’s sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read...
View ArticleMoonMappers Gearing Up for NASA Lunar Science Conf!
Apollo 14 Resolution Example / ©NASA/GSFC/ASU, Compilation S. Robbins This is just a reallyquick post to let you know that I’ve been hard at work this week analyzing all the MoonMappers data and...
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