Astronomy

The International Space Station will be making some nice visible passes in our evening skies to help brighten up the holiday season. 

[Update]: Vandenberg Air Force Base successfully launched the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning.

NASA's Insight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars Monday afternoon after being launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in May.

The International Space Station will be passing through Santa Barbara's skies for the next week, weather permitting.

The International Space Station will be making some nice visible evening passes through Santa Barbara's skies for the next week, weather permitting. 

The International Space Station will be making some decent visible passes through Santa Barbara's evening skies to usher in Autumn.

An edhat reader captured a photo of the Perseid Meteor Shower.

Coming to Santa Barbara's late night and early morning skies on August 11/12 and 12/13 is the peak of one of the most reliable meteor showers each year - the Perseid meteor shower.

The International Space Station will be making some nice visible evening passes through Santa Barbara skies in early August, weather permitting.

While you're out looking at our great planet lineup, Santa Barbara will get some nice evening passes from the International Space Station, weather permitting.

Between now and the end of July, all five of the brightest planets can be spotted in Santa Barbara's evening skies, with the Moon acting as a convenient guidepost to help you find them

On dark evenings starting now through June 22, head for a spot with a dark southern horizon and try to spot the 4 Vesta asteroid.

Santa Barbara's evening skies for the first half of June will feature numerous visible passes by the International Space Station, weather permitting.

Last Tuesday afternoon, an asteroid estimated to be about 300 feet across made a close approach, passing Earth at about half the distance to the Moon, or roughly 126,000 miles.

With the Sun now well north of the equator, Santa Barbara will get some long and bright visible evening passes from the International Space Station to start this series, weather permitting.

On Thursday evening, weather permitting, we'll get some nice celestial views as the Sun sets.

On Saturday morning will be the first launch of an interplanetary mission from Vandenberg, NASA's InSight mission to Mars to gather information on the interior of the red planet.

Santa Barbara will get a very nice series of visible evening passes from the International Space Station over the next week or so, weather permitting.

The International Space Station will once again be visible in Santa Barbara's evening skies, assuming we get a break in the clouds. 

The International Space Station will visit Santa Barbara's evening skies, weather permitting, in the week leading up to Valentine's Day.

Chuck shares photos of the Super Blue Blood Moon from the Bridge to Nowhere on Wednesday morning.

This Wednesday, January 31, we will experience a Super Blue Blood Moon.

To close out January, the International Space Station will once again be visible in Santa Barbara's evening skies, weather permitting.

Last Monday, November 28, was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of pulsars: highly magnetized, rotating neutron star or white dwarf, that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation.

The International Space Station will be cruising through Santa Barbara's evening skies as we're eating turkey and leftovers.

If you want to see a spectacular dawn conjunction of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, look to the east on the mornings of November 12, 13, and 14.

Chuck points out some really really big stars that are brightening up our skies lately.

On Wednesday evening, an approximately 50-foot across Potentially Hazardous Asteroid named 2012 TC4 made a close flyby of the Earth, passing within about 32,000 miles.

The mid-October skies above Santa Barbara will feature several nice visible passes by the International Space Station.

The International Space Station is back in Santa Barbara’s skies to celebrate the beginning of Autumn and the latest loony prophecy for the end of the world.