Tag Archives: Astronomy

North American map of lunar eclipse (4 April 2015)

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How many time zones are in our galaxy?

“Oh, man.” (Props to kottke for the pointer.)

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Martian Monday

We like drmickhead’s comment: “The fact that we have robots on another planet that will be photographing this event makes [us] inordinately happy.“

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Where in the universe is our home galaxy?

If this video is worth four minutes and 11 seconds of your time, then you pass our “intellectual curiosity” test.

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Mapping outer space

 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI).

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