Are Black Holes Powering the Most Massive Objects in Space? -A Galaxy Classic
"Blobs" might sound as scientific as an astrologer at a NASCAR rally, but it's a real astrophysical term - in fact, it's a giant one.  Blobs are immense clouds of gas -some stretch for tens of thousands of  light years- which failed to form into...

Hub of beauty
When Galileo first turned his telescope to the sky, almost exactly 400 years ago, he could not possibly have known what he was starting. Today, four centuries later, we’ve come a long, long way. To celebrate the anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic...

RT @AndrewMayne: Anybody know where I can get a quickie PhD in astronomy? I have a score to settle with @BadAstronomer.

Did you use the right image for this post? RT @BinoLady Why You Need A Pair Of Big Binoculars If You Love Astronomy http://bit.ly/DqJSU

Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won't End in 2012
This list from the Discovery Channel might come in handy to give to someone you know who might get too nervous about the 2012 doomsday predictions and the movie about them. Each scenario is debunked with what scientists really know. For example,1....

NASA - Swift XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into a Middleweight Black Hole
While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., find...

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Carl Sagan remembered
Today is Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. It would be nice if he were still around to send him the greeting personally, but sadly, he died too young: in 1996 he succumbed to complications of myleodysplasia. As he himself noted, though, the progress of...

@goldkwrp @carolann3888 Thanks for the RT! I am a scientist by nature & education & have always been fascinated by astronomy! Awesome stuff!

Photo: International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters http://tumblr.com/x0i3y0jzq

Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object Haumea
Pedro Lacerda of Queen's University in Belfast says he has spotted a dark red spot on the surface of Haumea using a 2.2 metre telescope at the University of Hawaii, the first time that surface detail has been been made out on such a body.

First separate signal from noise, prove it's Dark Matter, then astronomy will enter the realm of seeing the unseeable (http://bit.ly/m8kTt)

Space Visualization Lab -- Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
SR: Folks from UCHCAGO's AAC are involved with this project, and can serve as guides for school groups....

Carl Sagan remembered
Today is Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. It would be nice if he were still around to send him the greeting personally, but sadly, he died too young: in 1996 he succumbed to complications of myleodysplasia. As he himself noted, though, the progress of...

Carl Sagan remembered
Today is Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. It would be nice if he were still around to send him the greeting personally, but sadly, he died too young: in 1996 he succumbed to complications of myleodysplasia. As he himself noted, though, the progress of...

Map of the Day - National Geographic Magazine
map of space exploration

Big big Mars
The Big Picture.Mars.What else do you need to know? Go click.

Saturn at equinox - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Some fantastic recent images from the Cassini mission.

Astronomy Question of the Week: How far into outer space have space probes penetrated?
Outer space, a place of enormous distances: for more than 30 years, unmanned spacecraft have journeyed to learn more about the depths of space, its planets and the nature of interplanetary space. Now, billions of kilometres from Earth, space probes are...