New Horizons

Western Slope Skies - Pluto Update

By • Jul 15, 2016
NASA

One year ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of Pluto.

NASA's New Pluto Images Point To Geologically Active World

By • Jul 21, 2015

Pluto looks to be a far cry from the dead body that many scientists had long presumed. As the New Horizons probe continues to report back from the fringes of the solar system, a word that Mr. Spock might have used sums up the reaction: fascinating.

Western Slope Skies: New Horizons at Pluto

By • Jul 3, 2015
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

On February 18th, 1930, a 24-year-old Kansas farmhand-turned-astronomer made a discovery that forever changed our understanding of the Solar System. On that evening, Clyde Tombaugh, who had grown up on family farms in Illinois and Kansas, discovered Pluto. Tombaugh’s discovery nearly doubled the size of the known solar system overnight.

Western Slope Skies - Women In Astronomy

By • Dec 19, 2014
Black Canyon Astronomical Society logo

This is an ongoing series on Women in Astronomy.  Today, we meet three modern women in astronomy, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Andrea Ghez, and Carolyn Porco.