News From Space!

There will be a total eclipse of the moon Wednesday night, the last one until 2010. It will be visible in the Americas starting at 8:43PM EST. Western Europeans can see the eclipse early Thursday morning (0143 GMT on 21 Feb).

Will we see the satellite shootdown, too?

WASHINGTON, February 5 (RIA Novosti) - NASA plans to carry out up to six space shuttle launches in 2008, including a flight to service the Hubble Space Telescope, a space agency official has said.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2008/space-080205-rianovosti03.htm

Happy New Year! What exactly is a year, anyway? Bad Astronomy has the skinny. Plenty to see in this month’s night sky.

Look for the NASA/CalTech JPL Float at this morning’s Rose Parade.

Watch for a total lunar eclipse tonight. The best view will be from Australia and New Zealand, but people in the Americas should be able to catch it as well,  especially in the West. NASA will be looking for evidence of meteor hits on the moon’s surface.

Live coverage from the Discovery Channel online at 4PM EDT.

Have a Perseids Party this weekend - the annual meteor shower is due to look good this year, thanks to a new moon. In North America, the best night will be Sunday (Aug 12-13).

The Perseid meteor shower is coming, and experts say it should be a great show.

Saturnian Moon Looks Like Giant Bath Sponge — One of the strangest moons in our solar system is Hyperion, a Saturnian satellite so pockmarked by deep craters that it looks like a giant, rotating bath sponge adrift in space.

For sky watchers in the northern hemisphere, this weekend is the best time of the year to experience the mysterious and beautiful Moon Illusion.