Hey Space Placers! Meet astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. On Monday, they'll become the 1st human crew to ride aboard Boeing's Starliner to the International Space Station.  Credit: Earthsky.org Get details on how to watch the launch and other activities here. Watch the Eta Aquariids tonight. Sky Guy in the IO ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! Get all the details here     and here. DON'T FORGET THE ETA AQUARIID METEOR SHOWER! Sky Guy in Mauritius Hoping For Clear Skies ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! Get all the details here. Sky Guy Hoping For Clear Skies In the IO ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! Get more details here.  I'll be observing and photographing the Eta Aquarius from down under in the Indian Ocean. Sky Guy in the IO ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! CHANG'E-6 The Chang'e-6 spacecraft in lunar orbit. CGTN (Artist Rendition) China is scheduled to launch its next Moon mission on May 3rd. Chang'e-6 is a VERY ambitious lunar sample return mission from the far side of the Moon at the South Pole region.  Read more about it here and here. Sky Guy underway in the Indian Ocean ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! FROM NASA: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These observations show the top of the "horse's mane" or edge of this iconic nebula in a whole new light, capturing the region’s complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution. Webb’s new images show part of the sky in the constellation Orion (The Hunter), in the western side of a dense region known as the Orion B molecular cloud. Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas i ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! Meet the lunar crater Giordano Bruno. It’s 13 miles (21 km) wide and located on the moon’s far side. This mosaic image of the crater is from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)/ NASA/ GSFC/ Arizona State University. Get the low down on a piece of the Moon that became a Near-Earth Asteroid. There have to be pieces of the Earth that are asteroids too as well as "meteorites on the Moon from Earth".  Why? Because our planet has had impact craters that blasted LOTS of material out into space. Future astronauts and space missions to the Moon and Asteroid ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! The Boeing Starliner capsule that will fly the company’s Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2023. (Image credit: Boeing/John Grant) Mark your calendars for May 6, 10:34 PM EDT to tune in for the scheduled launch from Kennedy Space Center. More details here  and here. Sky Guy at sea in the Gulf of Oman cvoinv inch  ..read more

 Hey, Space Placers! Earth, as seen from nearly a million miles away by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. (Image credit: NASA) Read More About NASA's efforts to study our planet. Sky Guy in VA ..read more

Hey, Space Placers! If you are an early riser in the hours before dawn and live in a dark sky area, you may have seen a bright band of light in the South East sky. That is the center of our Milky Way Galaxy rising. As the coming months lead to August, the Milky Way will rise in the South East earlier and earlier until it becomes visible as it gets dark. Read more about our galaxy and where we are located within it. I will be at sea soon away from the lights of land with the Milky Way easily visible. I hope to get pics to share with you. Sky Guy in VA ..read more