I just received word from the Knight Foundation that we did not get accepted for the grant. I want to thank all of you for commenting and rating the grant proposal. I also want to assure you this won’t get in the way of seeking other grants and funding sources. Stay tuned!

I have a very unique opportunity that could really help SkyGuy take off!

The Knight News Challenge is giving away millions of dollars for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused news projects. Read more »

The MESSENGER probe is circling Mercury right now. Why is it there? What’s so interesting about Mercury?

Special thanks to Amy Gahran for editing a great script and making it fun!
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Uh oh. I have some bad news. It’s not ALL bad, but it’s pretty important to people who care about space…

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Spiral galaxies are beautiful and swirly. But why? The answer my surprise you. Also, SkyGuy introduces the three other main types of galaxies.

Special thanks to Amy Gahran for editing a great script and making it fun!

August 11th and 12th mark the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. But what is a meteor shower and what causes it? SkyGuy explains…

Special thanks to Amy Gahran for editing a great script and making it fun!

More about the Perseids:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/22jul_perseiddawn.htm

A list of meteor showers, world-wide:
http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/meteor.html

Sunrise calculator
http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html

You may have noticed that all the questions I have received are from girls.

To be fair, I have received questions from boys, I just haven’t gotten to them yet. But I find it interesting that most of the questions I have received indeed do come from girls.

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This just in … water found on the moon!

But wait …. we are searching for water on Mars. We don’t have a lander on the Moon, and we haven’t been to the Moon since the Apollo missions. So how can scientists find water on the Moon now?

Believe it or not, it is precisely those samples from the Apollo missions that made this discovery possible. Processing some of those samples with techniques that were not available when the samples first came to Earth has enabled scientists to determine that there had been much more water on the Moon in the past.

Seems we’re finding more and more water in our solar system. Even Mercury appears to have water at its poles.