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For over 400 years, legions Fof lunar cartographers have been surveying the surface of the Moon--first by telescope and then by spacecraft--charting and naming its features. The resulting lunar map [...]

WHEN WE THINK OF SPACE AND TEXAS, our thoughts jump to Houston and the Johnson Space Center, home of NASA's Mission Control Center, and where the amazing Apollo expeditions and [...]

>> The Moon's surface presents an unforgivingly harsh environment. Without an atmosphere or magnetic field, it is vulnerable to deadly coronal mass ejections from the Sun, levels of hazardous radiation [...]

MICHAEL ENDL IS ON A MISSION: As a research scientist with the University of Texas at Austin, he hopes the sum of his astronomy career will be a chart characterizing [...]

Lunar photography has always been a relatively simple procedure: aim your telescope, focus, and snap a bunch of pictures. Indeed, the same basic technique used in 1840 by John Draper [...]

The Moon is big, bright, and easy to photograph. But capturing it well is another story, indeed. The Moon has a special place in my heart. I took my first [...]

Recently Robert Reeves spoke with the husband and wife asteroid hunting team of Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker. While telling him about their asteroid and comet discoveries, the Shoemakers also revealed [...]

In 1908, a brilliant fireball streaked northwest across the sky over Siberia and exploded 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 kilometers) above ground near the Tunguska River. Releasing 1,000 [...]

Texas is a place of legends, cowboys, romance, and astronomy. Here, the sky seems to cover half the world. You can drive 500 miles (800 kilometers) and never encounter a [...]

Astroimagers will appreciate Tele Vue's new TV-60is 2.4-inch (60mm) f/6 APO telescope. The scope has standard and optional features optimized for CCD and SLR imaging systems. The TV-60is' fine-focusing ability [...]

The observatory roof slowly rolled back, flooding the formerly dark room with sunlight. As my eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness, the gleaming white Meade 12-inch Schmidt camera seemed to [...]

Details the work of astrophotographer Jason Ware. Camera used for photography; Digital enhancement technique employed; Information on film astrophotography.