This drawing superimposed on an image of the moon illustrates the field of view (FOV) of a telescope used to…
Simultaneous observations of the moon are performed using two telescopes in order to rule out flashes from noise and satellites.
Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA is seen floating outside the International Space Station during a spacewalk. Pesquet and Expedition…
The Suomi NPP satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured a look at dozens and dozens of fires…
On May 25, 1961, president John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would commit to a lunar landing by…
This optical image shows the Was 49 system, which consists of a large disk galaxy, Was 49a, merging with a…
What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings…
This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms.
A 14” Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a focal reducer and astronomical video cameras used to observe lunar impact flashes at the…
The Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory (ALaMO) consists of two observatory domes, a 15 meter (50 ft) tower with a…