The world’s oldest federation of astronomical societies, the Astronomical League , will hold its annual meeting next week in Chicago, Illinois, not far from Astronomy magazine’s backyard in metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The staff is excited...

It’s been an exciting couple of months for astronomy! The annular eclipse in late May followed by the last-in-our-lifetime transit of Venus in early June have provided amateur astronomers and their friends plenty to look at. As part of Astronomy...

Frequent imaging contributor John Chumack recently returned to his home in Dayton, Ohio, from a trip to witness the June 5 transit of Venus from Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. He and two friends were able to set up their equipment to witness...

Christopher Go from Cebu, Philippines , is a longtime contributor of planetary images to Astronomy magazine. Occasionally, however, he sends in something different. This time-lapse video shows the May 20, 2012, annular eclipse from Karannaville, Utah...

Sam Houston State University’s Bucket List Astronomy Tour Class of non-science majors has spent the past three weeks witnessing amazing astronomical phenomena, learning more about the night sky, and blogging about their experiences . Their trip...

Another American Astronomical Society (AAS) summer meeting has come and gone. Today’s recap will be a shorter one, because the final day of the meeting has fewer events, and because I have to catch a flight in the afternoon (in order to arrive in...

Another interesting and universe-filled Wednesday unfolded in Anchorage, Alaska, the third (and final) full day of the 220th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Instead of an overarching theme uniting most of the talks, today I saw a hodge...

Before Sam Houston State University’s Bucket List Astronomy Tour (BLAsT) Class left Australia after witnessing the transit of Venus , they learned a bit about Aboriginal astronomy. Theyvisited Macquarie University to learn about Aboriginal culture...

The second day of the 220th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) started close to home, then quickly took off for the farthest reaches of the universe. Oh, the power of astronomy! Starting things off, AAS’s Solar Physics Division...

It was a big day for planetary science on Monday, the first full day of the 220th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Anchorage, Alaska. As planned, I’d missed the opening reception the day before, so I really wanted to get the...

Well, sometimes time really flies. It feels like I just got back from Australia , and now it’s time for me to fly off to Anchorage, Alaska, for the 220th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Unlike my previous two AAS trips, this...

Here’s a note I got from Craig and Tammy Temple , who live in Hendersonville, Tennessee. They’re a pair of top-notch astroimagers who have sent whatever they capture to me here at Astronomy magazine. On June 5, 2012, we packed up our equipment...

The Bucket List Astronomy Tour (BLAsT) Class , a group of 10 Sam Houston State University undergraduate students on a journey to witness some of the best astronomical events of a lifetime, had the opportunity to witness the transit of Venus from a pretty...

The Bucket List Astronomy Tour (BLAsT) Class , a group of 10 Sam Houston State University undergraduate students on a journey to witness some of the best astronomical events of a lifetime, has had an exciting couple of days in Australia with their professors...

In Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Kalmbach Publishing Company (KPC), publishers of Astronomy magazine, Tuesday, June 5, began as a clear day and remained essentially cloudless through sunset. That’s unusual enough, but it’s not nearly as rare...

Everyone's gearing up for today's transit of Venus , the last one until 2117. Here at Astronomy , we've received tons of information about cool science related to the event, and there's no way we could write individually about them all. Instead, I provide...

The Bucket List Astronomy Tour (BLAsT) Class , a group of 10 Sam Houston State University undergraduate students on a journey to witness some of the best astronomical events of a lifetime, has been taking in lectures and keeping busy in Australia as they...

On Tuesday, June 5, starting at 2 p.m. MST, the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter will provide a live Internet broadcast of the last transit of Venus until December 2117. The SkyCenter is a learning facility run by the University of Arizona in Tucson. It sits atop...

I was out of the office quite a few days last month. My wife had to speak at a conference in Melbourne, Australia, and I wanted to go with her to show my support … and to see some of the land Down Under. It was one of the few trips I’ve...