Quite an amazing theme for a museum exhibition, photographs of classified American satellites in Earth orbit, as seen from the ground. "The Other Night Sky" is a project to track and photograph classified American satellites in Earth orbit, a total of 189 covert spacecraft. To develop the body of work, I was assisted by observational data produced by an international network of amateur "satellite observers." To translate the observational ... Read full entry

German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures Is this meant to be good news, or what? Now the odds have improved considerably in the asteroid's favour. Not ours. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported. NASA had previously estimated the chances at ... Read full entry