Last week, NASA announced a new outreach program that I’m sure some of you citizen scientists will want to take part in: Target Asteroids! The space agency is asking amateur astronomers to study various near-Earth objects (NEOs) from an initial...

The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) ran from April 13 through the 15th in the North Building of Chicago’s McCormick Place. I attended this year’s event , and I had a blast! I also learned quite a bit. The annual convention...

The importance of dark skies is surely something I don’t need to defend around here. Anyone interested in the night sky is likely all too aware of the decreased visibility and diminished views of stars that accompany light pollution — the...

The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) starts Friday, April 13, and I’ll be there. With bells on. With press credentials. And with a burning desire to ask at least one comic book author, “What’s it feel like to create a whole...

I’ve just heard from guest blogger Donald Lubowich of Hofstra University about his upcoming Astronomy Night on the National Mall , which takes place April 28 (with a rain date of April 29) in Washington, D.C., and which Astronomy magazine and the...

I’m embarrassed to admit this, but, according to my parents, when I was a mere three years old and watching the Apollo 11 launch July 16, 1969, on our tiny low-def TV, my infant vocal cords supposedly uttered “Aw, he broke” after the...

To the delight of amateur astronomers everywhere, Canon just introduced a DSLR optimized for astroimaging. The EOS 60Da is the long-awaited successor to the EOS 20Da, the company’s former astronomy enhanced model. The 60Da offers a modified infrared...