In the Sky This Month – August 2009

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of August 2009. … More

Hubble Observes the Impact on Jupiter

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to take the sharpest images yet of the recent comet/asteroid impact on Jupiter. Hubble … More

Two nights ago an Australian amateur astronomer, Anthony Wesley, observed a dark spot in the South Polar region of Jupiter. … More

Amateur astronomers from Australia and Japan may have detected the results of an asteroid or comet impact on Jupiter. This … More

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of July 2009. … More

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of June 2009. … More

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of May 2009. … More

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of April 2009. … More

Yet another night of thick clouds here in Arizona. I wouldn’t mind if it would actually rain. Not only are … More

I hope everyone ducked this morning, as a small asteroid passed within 40,000 miles (64,000 km or 1/5th the distance … More