The Urban Astronomer

We live in an SBc galaxy, a Barred Spiral galaxy, according to the Hubble Sequence classification method. What does that mean? Well actual...

Above the Arctic Circle, days during the summer are very unusual. At some point in May or early June the sun does not set, but instead stays...

Humans have pushed the frontiers of exploration in space by sending probes to the edge of our Solar System and beyond. Just how far have we ...

Jewel Box Cluster When you go out at night and look up into the night sky, you might not immediately think to yourself "how colorful th...

Jupiter, Mars and Moon on 6 March I love watching planets move. So did the ancient Greeks and they named these wandering objects 'planet...

I love to see planets in our night sky. They are wonderful. They are wanderers. In motion, always gently sweeping across the sky, often the ...

Viking Lander on Mars 1976 We humans have come a long way, evolving into a technologically advanced species. Over the past 60 years we have ...

The Face on Mars (1976) It's that time of year when pumpkins begin appearing everywhere and darkness arrives earlier in the evening. We ...