Roaming Astronomer

Above is a composite of two images taken of the Cydonia region of Mars. The first image (left) was taken July 25, 1976 by NASA's Vik...

The above image shows Supernova 1987A, which exploded in February 1987. The image was taken February 1994 using the Wide Field Planetary C...

The above image is an artist's concept of NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft passing the planet Jupiter. Image Credit: NASA Researcher...

The above image is a composite of two artist's conceptions. The left is Mars Odyssey in orbit of Mars. The right is the Mars Science L...

The above X-ray image of the sun was taken on July 25th at 03:16 UTC (11:16 PM EDT July 24th) by the GOES-15 satellite. Image Credit: NOAA...

My apologies to Sally Field for twisting her quote. Or even bringing it up at all... My purpose in this post is to let you know that I ...

The above image is an artist's concept of the Geotail satellite. Image Credit: NASA July 24 marks the 20th anniversary of the launch...

The above image, taken in 1984, is of then-NASA astronaut Sally Ride. Image Credit: NASA Sally Kristen Ride passed away July 23rd at ...

The above image was taken July 23rd by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The image captures the coronal mass ejection (CME) which erupted (a...

The above image is a four-frame illustration of the devouring of a star by a black hole. In frame 1 we see a sun-like star on an eccentric...

The above image is an artist's concept of a storm of comets around the star Eta Corvi. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Im...

The above image is a screenshot from the new Microsoft Xbox Mars Rover Landing Game. Image Credit: Microsoft/Smoking Gun On August 5th, ...

The above images were taken during the July 23rd flight of IRVE-3. The left images are from two of the cameras aboard IRVE-3 showing the e...

The above image is an aerial view of Launch Pad 39A (in the foreground) and 39B (in the background). Image Credit: NASA /Cory Huston A...

PLEASE IGNORE THE OLD LAUNCH DATE. The above image is an overview of the flight demonstration of the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment...

The above image is a frame from the 2009 restoration of the Apollo 11 moon walk on July 20, 1969. Image Credit: NASA A very happy 43th...

The above image composite shows one image (left) taken by NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) telescope and one image (right)...

The above image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on July 19, 2012. It shows an M7.7 class solar flare. The ima...

In the above composite, the image on the left is a 16th-century astrolabe and the image on the right is a contemporary planisphere. Image ...

The above image was taken October 25, 1975 from 22,000 miles above Earth by the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ...