Dean W. Armstrong

The Kepler mission is looking at this field of stars in Cygnus and Lyra . One of these stars will have an Earth-sized planet orbiting a sta...

If you are searching for ISS and Shuttle passes over Chicago, tonight's was the last one for a while. If you are an early morning perso...

Enceladus' north pole. Click to enlarge to awesome. via Planetary Society Blog .

The LRO imaged most of the Apollo landing site on the Moon. Things will get better as the orbital parameters are modified. There appears t...

I just watched an awesome pass of the International Space Station over Chicago. I was able to catch it and follow* the ISS through a telesc...

There are a number of nice passes of the International Space Station visible in Chicago for the next two weeks. Take a look at Heavens-Abov...

The first test images are back from the LRO . I've annotated a previous image of the moon with the location of the image: The orange ma...

Seth Anderson at B12 Solipsism has an excellent series of posts ( here , here , and here ) about the intersection of the new online/sharing ...

I missed something in the last post --the image is Venus and Earth from Mars. Venus is the bright point in the center, and Earth is the fai...

Via Emily Lakdawalla @ facebook. http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=18408 UPDATE: I realize I miss...

I watched the end of analog TV at noon today for Channels 2,5, and 7. They unceremoniously just cut the power--one in a commercial and two ...

The Japanese Space Agency JAXA just deorbited their lunar orbiting spacecraft Kayuga. Watch this , this , this (embedded below) , or this , ...

I used to record audio off my Tivo on my desktop computer--but when I had the cable TV connected, I would get a loud hum. The reason for th...

The European Space Agency launched an ambitious set of satellites a few days ago: Herschel is a 3.5m diameter infrared telescope, and Planck...