Eclipses, Occultations and Transits

Your weekly guide to the best sights in the sky: planets, meteor showers, eclipses, constellations, and much more. Includes chapter markers and star charts in the album artwork. Nominated for a 2006 Podcast Award in the education section.  

Eclipses in a unique system of two dead stars, called pulsars, has shown that one of the pair is 'wobbling' in space - just like a spinning top.  

To make a new collider, physicists in Japan plan to push an existing machine to its limits. Others in Italy hope to cobble one together from old parts and a bright idea. Author: Adrian Cho  

On page 101 of this week's issue of Science, researchers report separating and patterning semiconducting tubes in a single step to form the heart of a transistor that turned off and on much more efficiently than previous transistors made with bunches of nanotubes. Author: Robert F. Service  

"We're now in the age of astronomy without borders," said Dr Tasso Tzioumis of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). "From a single operations centre we can make huge streams of precisely time-linked data flow simultaneously between several countries, at gigabits per second...  

ROGERS — Saturday will mark the fourth of six scheduled astronomy programs at Hobbs State Park — Conservation Area for 2008. The 8:30 p.m. (Benton County Daily Record)  

The rings around Saturn, moons that orbit Jupiter and various constellations were a little closer to Earth for a crowd of families and astronomy enthusiasts that sat on St. Stephen's Episcopal School's athletics field Saturday night. The local Episcopal school and the Austin Astronomical...  

VALPARAISO | A team of Valparaiso University faculty and students will travel to one of the nation’s best sites for conducting astronomical observations next week and continue research into the nature of dying stars and binary star systems.  

Queen, Leona Lewis, Amy Winehouse and a host of African stars joined tens of thousands of music fans Friday to salute Nelson Mandela at a concert in honor of the South African statesman's 90th birthday. American singer Josh Groban and the Soweto Gospel Choir are also lined up for the event...  

Stars of the screen, stage and sporting arena paid tribute on Friday to Nelson Mandela, whose visit to London was overshadowed by events in Zimbabwe where disputed elections have just ended.  

A new astronomy program at Badlands National Park allows visitors to get a closer look at the sky -- and in new a light.  

Gary Fujihara of the University of Hawaii-Hilo Institute for Astronomy is one of eight winners of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's 2008 awards for excellence in astronomy research and education.  

The discovery of a new mineral early this month by a team of NASA astronomers has put Minnesota State physics and astronomy professor Russell Palma in the limelight, if only for 15 minutes of fame. Palma is a member of an international team of researchers working on analyzing samples brought...  

LOWELL | Calumet Astronomical Society and astronomy professors from Purdue University Calumet will host the third annual Youth Astronomy Camp next month at the Thomas Conway Observatory at Buckley Homestead County Park.  The purpose of the camp is to introduce young people, ages 10 to 18, to the...  

A host of stars turned out on the red carpet in Scotland's capital for the world premiere of Stone Of Destiny. The film, directed by Charles Martin Smith, tells the story of the theft of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey in 1950.