Tag: "chabot space and science center"
A Night to be Out Under the Stars…and Planets…and Moon…and Meteors….
A Night to be Out Under the Stars…and planets…and Moon…and meteors….
Post on Jun 18, 2010 by Ben Burress
Pluto On the Horizon!
Since childhood I've been fascinated by Pluto—probably more for our lack of knowing it than for anything we actually know.
Post on Apr 23, 2010 by Ben Burress
Lunar Ice Smack-down a Success!
NASA's LCROSS mission found water on the Moon, no bones about it. Though NASA is still analyzing all the data they reaped from the LCROSS impact event on October 9th, and will be for a long time to come, they seem confident enough about the preliminary findings to make this a definite declaration of discovery!
Post on Nov 20, 2009 by Ben Burress
Producer's Notes: Maya Skies
Go behind the scenes of Tales of Maya Skies, the new film produced by Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center. The half-hour film about Maya astronomy opens at the center's planetarium on November 21.
Post on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós
Jumpin' Jupiter! Where Did the Galileans Go?
Had Galileo spied the planet Jupiter with his telescope 400 years ago on a night such as a couple of Thursdays ago, would the history of modern astronomy have unfolded any differently?
Post on Sep 11, 2009 by Ben Burress
Crab Nebula: Awesome Beauty From Destruction
As I write this blog, the age of the Crab Nebula is exactly 955 years and 40 days.
Post on Aug 28, 2009 by Ben Burress
Hubble Gets a New Lease on Space
Hubble Space Telescope gets upgrades and repairs… for the last time.
Post on May 22, 2009 by Ben Burress
Age of Aquarius: Are We There Yet?
"Can you tell me about the upcoming beginning of the Age of Aquarius?" said the voice on the phone. "I heard that it starts this Saturday…."
Post on Feb 13, 2009 by Ben Burress
The International Year of Astronomy
2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo first pointing the new invention of the telescope at the sky.
Post on Dec 05, 2008 by Ben Burress
Mercury MESSENGER: The View Is Great; Wish You Were Here
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has made yet another swing past our Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury. But, like the traveler who just can't seem to get enough sightseeing in, this was another whirlwind flyby set to the furious tempo of a camera snapping pics–about 1200 in all…
Post on Oct 22, 2008 by Ben Burress
Asteroid 2008 TC3 Strikes Earth!
News Flash! Asteroid 2008 TC3, on a collision trajectory with Earth, made a meteoric atmospheric entry into the skies above Sudan, Central Africa Tuesday morning, October 7th (local time-about 7:46 PM PDT). Entering the atmosphere at a speed of 12.8 kilometers per second, it exploded with the force of a low-level nuclear bomb…
Post on Oct 09, 2008 by Ben Burress
Expressly Venus
With all the attention that the exploration of certain other planets has received lately, I feel that Venus exploration has fallen off our radar a bit, and that it is high time for an update.
Post on Sep 26, 2008 by Ben Burress
The Asteroid Hunters
On July 14th, 2008, an almost Hollywood-like drama took place in space nearby: a "double," or binary, asteroid whizzed past Earth, grazing by at a distance of only 1.4 million miles. One of the rocks is over 200 meters across, the other a whopping 600 meters– about half the size of Half Dome in Yosemite!
Post on Jul 18, 2008 by Ben Burress
Come Together, Bright Planets, Over Me….
Depiction of a major alignment of the five visible planets in 1059 BCE. Photo By Ben Burress There are some pretty good "lineups" coming soon to skies above you. First of all, "lineups," or alignments, go on in the heavens all the time, though most often they are alignments of objects too faint to easily [...]
Post on Jun 20, 2008 by Ben Burress
Phoenix on Ice?
A patch of what might be ice, exposed by Phoenix's landing rockets.So, did it land on ice? Huh? Did it? Two blogs ago I wrote about the then upcoming landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars, near the Northern polar ice cap (Probing the Martian Pole). The entire point of landing on Mars' extreme northern [...]
Post on Jun 09, 2008 by Ben Burress
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