Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

A telegram was issued on July 10th by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union announcing that the Earth got impacted for a few hours by a stream of dust from a potentially dangerous comet last…[more]

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before.…[more]

Parts of the moon’s interior contains as much water as the upper mantle of the Earth - 100 times more of the precious liquid than measured before – research from Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Institution for Science, and Brown…[more]

Have you ever woken up at the crack of dawn, shuffled to the kitchen counter for your first cup of joe, only to discover that you’re out of coffee beans?

Cruel.

This week it’s not a…[more]

Spring is a great time to go looking for other galaxies, those sprawling systems of gas, stars, dust and planets.

In summer and winter, the Earth is positioned so that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, stretches across…[more]

On March 19, the moon will be at its closest point to our planet in 18 years—just 221567 miles away. This event—also called a lunar perigee—was christened as a “supermoon” by astrologer Richard Nolle in the 1970s and the term…[more]

Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids—fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks – enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Stand out under the stars for more than a half an hour on a clear night and you’ll likely…[more]

Amateur astronomers working with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter’s atmosphere this summer, marking the first time Earth-based telescopes have captured relatively small objects burning up in the atmosphere of the giant planet. The two fireballs –…[more]

You know it’s a good night when a beautiful alignment of planets is the second best thing that’s going to happen.

Thursday, August 12th, is such a night.

The show begins at sundown when Venus, Saturn,…[more]

Searching for what might be happening in the July night sky? Here are a few planet and moon viewing opportunities you may want to observe this month:

The evening planets are Mercury (beginning tomorrow, the 10th, and observable…[more]