3 weeks ago A solar eclipse is a rare event, and one takes place this Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately, those of us in the northern hemisphere (as in Utica-Rome) won't be able to see it, but it will be broadcast.
May 5, 2012 Move over Super Bowl, here comes a celestial show that will even overshadow you. It's being called the "Supermoon" or super perigee moon. According to CBS News the moon will reach perigee or its closest point to earth around 11:30 tonight. What does this mean to we stargazers?
March 22, 2012 Ever wonder how to make a burrito in space? No? Well, I guess I never really thought about it either. Then, I saw this video. It shows an astronaut making a burrito in zero gravity. It's pretty amazing when the burrito flips over and nothing falls out of the burrito.
March 19, 2012 He is known to his pals as "Fearless Felix". It is not a nickname that has been lightly earned. Felix Baumgartner has jumped from planes over 2,500 times and now, according to the AP, he is planning his most daring jump yet from 120,000 feet or 23 miles above the earth. The record for a free fall by parachute is currently held by Air Force test pilot Joe Kittinger who jumped from 102,800 feet — 19.5 miles — in 1960. How fast will "Fearless Felix" be falling?
September 9, 2011 I've always been a bit spaced out, so to speak, with a keen interest in space exploration. I am old enough to remember that first lunar landing in 1969 by Apollo 11, and we have landed on the moon several more times. Now, new photos have been released showing remnants of those landings - everything from lunar rover tracks to items left behind.
February 23, 2011 Many of us do believe that we are not alone, and that there is intelligent life out there in the cosmos. I believe there is, but one of my heroes, the late Dr. Carl Sagan said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
