Roaming Astronomer

Image Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA The engineers of NASA's Dawn mission are working away, studying the recent i...

Above are Dawn framing camera images of Vesta, showing Aelia crater at both HAMO (high-altitude mapping orbit) and LAMO (low-altitude map...

The above image is a 360-degree, full-resolution panorama from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the area all around the rover within G...

The above image is a collection of ten frames taken by  the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), at 131 Angstroms, aboard the Solar Dyn...

Last Saturday, August 11th, team members from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity mission were featured on National Public Radio...

The above chart shows the number of Perseid fireballs recorded through August 13th by the eight cameras of NASA's All Sky Fireball N...

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The above image shows the August 9th launch of the prototype of the Morpheus Lander craft lander. Image Credit: NASA Around 12:40 PM EDT...

Today, August 13th, at 8:00 AM PDT / 11:00 AM EDT, U.S. President Barack Obama will call and congratulate team members of NASA's Mars Sc...

The above image shows three sketches of Mars made by Christiaan Huygens in 1659. Image Credit: International Planetary Cartography Databas...

First, we have a 2-minute 3-second video containing images of the August 11th M1-class solar flare. The collection of images were made by th...

The above chart shows the number of Perseid fireballs recorded through August 12th by the eight cameras of NASA's All Sky Fireball Net...

The above image shows the High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (HEAO 1), prior to launch. Image Credit: NASA August 12th marks the 35th a...

The above image shows Soviet cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, pilot of the Vostok 4, sitting in the spacecraft. Image Credit: National Aerona...

The above image was taken August 11th at 12:21 UTC by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), at 131 Angstroms, aboard the Solar Dynamics...

The Perseids are popping! And over this night (August 11th-12th), NASA astronomer Bill Cooke and his team from the Meteoroid Environment Of...

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The above image does not do justice to the original, but maybe it will tempt you sufficiently to che...

The above chart shows the number of Perseid fireballs recorded through August 11th by the eight cameras of NASA's All Sky Fireball Ne...

The above image shows Soviet cosmonaut Adrian Nikolaiev, pilot of the Vostok 3. Image Credit: The image was provided by Wikipedia contribu...

The above image is a close-up of the Martian satellite Deimos, taken March 9, 2009 by the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconn...