A Voyage to the Inner-Most Planet
Mercury Revealed. (Credit: NASA/JPL). The Solar System has just become a little more known. This year our view of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has changed as the Messenger spacecraft...
View ArticleJuly 08 News & Notes.
Eris, Xena, or Plutoid? Note tiny Dysnomia to the right. (Credit, APOD & NASA). Attack of the Plutoids? On June 11th, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) handed down yet another definition...
View ArticleRemembering Carl.
(Editor’s note: Some may think that this week’s big post and book review are redundant, because they both cover the same famed scientist. Faithful followers of this site will however recall that we’ve...
View ArticleReview: 2010: The Year we Make Contact.
2010: The year we make contact. Original movie poster. (Credit: MGM). This week, we here at Astroguyz are going retro with our review. Way back in my pre-historic high school days (like, 1984), my...
View ArticleReview: Voyager by Stephen J. Pyne.
Ours may be an age of discovery like no other. This week, we look at Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery, by Stephen J. Pyne, out July 26th, 2010 from Viking Press....
View ArticleReview: Journey Beyond Selene by Jeffery Kluger.
A classic of the early space age! Before men landed on the Moon, we had to first crash land there successfully. This week, we dip back into the Astroguyz library to review the classic...
View ArticleReview: 2001: A Space Odyssey
This week, we here at Astroguyz are taking a look at a science fiction cinematic oldie but goodie. Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey makes the top of nearly every science geeks short...
View Article26.04.11: New Horizons and the Hunt for KBOs.
Artist’s Concept of New Horizons at a KBO. (Credit: Dan Durda SwRI/NASA/JPL). A sky survey has begun this month for a very special mission. In July 2015, NASAs New Horizons mission will whiz past the...
View Article28.04.11: Can You Say Pioneer Non-nomaly?
Pioneer; Looking Back. (Credit: Artists conception NASA/JPL). Every advocate of alternative physics favorite spacecraft anomaly has been finally laid to rest recently. In 1972 & 1973 The Pioneer...
View Article11.05.11: Voyager: The Humanoids Where Here.
Decoding the disk; are you smarter than a humanoid? (Credit: NASA/JPL). If we were to vanish from the cosmic scene tomorrow, what would be our most lasting impact? Would it be our monuments, our...
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