Current Events In Astronomy

Astronomy, at times, can be like a sport. Keeping up with it can be a lot of fun. Big things happen nearly every day. That includes new images brought in from satellites and telescopes, new discoveries about the nature of planets and stars and other objects, as well as breakthroughs and just every day small progress in the tools and techniques used to make these discoveries.One of the best places to keep up with current events in astronomy is NASA's web site. Not only does NASA make a lot of the news, but it constantly keeps its site updated with news of the latest and greatest about space and objects within it. Here are just some of the current events shown in mid November of 2008.Tops on the list of current events in astronomy was the shuttle Endeavor's launch. It setout on a mission to refuel the International Space Station. This included a number of space walks to perform routine maintenance on the outside of the station. Such space walks aren't only immediately important for the goals they accomplish, but important in the development of techniques and experiences that apply to future missions. The space station is very important for furthering the science of astronomy. The Hubble telescope chimed in to current events in astronomy with an amazing discovery. For the first time in history, a telescope took a visible light image of a planet orbiting another star. The effort dates way back to the 1980's when NASA's IRAS, an infrared telescope, discovered dust around the star. That was a tell tale sign that planets might orbit this star located about 25 light years away from our own little planet.In astronomy, current events in astronomy can cover the past. NASA announced details of a Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project designed to restore images of the moon taken by five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that visited the moon in 1966 and 1967. Much of the data was removed from the tape drives in the 1980's, but stored as analogue images and only partially restored. NASA has already released some of these restored historic images. Astronomy, like the Universe, is huge. Also large is a list of current events in astronomy. Keep watching!

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