Amateur Astronomy News Archive #3

Hubble Space Telescope Marks 25 Years in Orbit

Why Astronomers Hate Lawn-Mowing Roomba

NASA's New Horizons Probe Delivers First Ever Color Image of Pluto

NASA Details Plans to Fly Spacecraft into Sun's Atmosphere (going at night to not burn up ;-)

New Crater on the Moon Named for Aviator Amelia Earhart

University Wants App for Safe Drone Flying

Night Vision Eye Drops Allow Sight of up to 50m in Darkness

$344M (€304M) Telescope Will Image the Sun in Unprecedented Detail

Hubble Telescope Sees Rare 3-Moon Shadow Dance on Jupiter

Bizarre Plumes on Mars Have Scientists Scratching Their Heads

CU-Boulder Pitches Telescope That Could Image at Higher-Res Than Hubble

Astronomers Seek Widest View Ever of Universe with New Telescope

Could Glitter Help Solve NASA's Giant Telescope Problem?

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Finds First Alien Planet of New Mission

Can Astronomy Explain the Biblical Star of Bethlehem?

Largest Telescope the World Has Ever Seen Gets Construction Go-Ahead

'Smart Dust' Technology Could Reshape Space Telescopes

Home-Brew Observatory Detects Exoplanet

Waking New Horizons Craft on Pluto's Doorstep

Astronomers Watching Extreme Storms on Uranus

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Isn't What We Thought It Was

NASA Creating Virtual Telescope with Two Small Spacecraft

3D-Printed Telescope Takes Pix of the Moon

Once in a Million Year Comet Barely Miss Mars on Sunday

Philae Lander Snaps a Selfie as It Passes by Comet Philae

Smartphones Turned into Pocket Cosmic Ray Detectors

2014 Astrophoto Contest Winners

Saturn's Weird Fast-Changing Ring Baffles Scientists

Mars Probes from U.S. and India Arrive at Red Planet This Month

NASA Photo Earth Seen from Moon21-Year-Old Makes Astronomy Breakthrough 

NASA Reestablishes Contact with Sun-Earth Explorer-3 Spacecraft Launched in 1978

Milky Way's Structure Mapped in Unprecedented Detail

Astronomers Spot Record-Breaking Lunar Impact

Hubble's First Frontier Field Finds Thousands of Faraway Galaxies

First Asteroid of 2014 Discovered

Top Science and Space Stories of 2013

Plotting the Destinations of 4 Interstellar Probes

Chinese Lander Captures First Panorama on the Moon

South African Large Telescope (SALT) Will Inspire Science Boom

Smartphone App Can Help Track, Identify Meteors Falling to Earth

Private Company Plans U.S.'s First Controlled Moon Landing in 40 Years

How NASA Revived the Kepler Space Telescope

India Vies for Space Presence with Mars Mission

'Son of Blackbird': Plan for New Spy Plane

Arecibo Radio Observatory 50th Anniversary Special Event Set

Truck Driver Builds World's Largest Amateur Telescope

Amateur Snaps Spectacular Photo of Saturn's Rings

Comet ISON's Blazing Green Tail Captured in Stunning Photo

Astronomers Confirm Most Distant Galaxy Ever

Angry Sun Spits 2 Million-MPH Tongues of Fire

ESA Prepares to Awaken Comet Hunter from Deep-Space Sleep

NASA Declares an End to Deep Impact Comet Mission after Spacecraft Goes Silent

SARA and Radio Jove Conferences to be held in 2014

Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Issues Call for Conference Papers

Voyager 1 Becomes 1st Human-Made Object to Leave Solar System

Third Mirror Casting Event for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Sun's 8.2-Billion-Year-Old Twin Found

Astronomers Take Sharpest Photos Ever of Night Sky

Strike Blinds World's Largest Radio Telescope

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Halfway to Jupiter 

Voyager Has Left the Solar System