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NASA Selects Target Crater for Lunar Impact

Sept. 11, 2009: NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is racing [...]

Shedding Light on Black Holes

July, 2009

By Tom Koonce

Antelope Valley Astronomy Club

Lancaster, California

Black Holes…  Just their name sounds like something out of science fiction.  Maybe this is one reason why they have been the focus of misconceptions and misguided theories.  This month, the theme of the International Year of Astronomy is centered on the objects that weigh heavily (pun intended) [...]