Tom Westre

The International Space Station is a permanently crewed Earth orbiting station. Over 230 astronauts, cosmonauts and other space visitors from 19 nations…

Now that we are well into Fall, the night sky presents us with a number of interesting objects to observe.Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are still with us and…

This summer, evening sky observers have been treated to two solar system planets, Jupiter and Saturn.Both planets are still well placed in the…

Fall arrived in Utah this morning at 7:31 am Mountain Time. This is called the Autumnal Equinox. The word “equinox” is Latin and means “equal and “nox”…

If you look south south west in the early evening in the late summer early fall you will see Antares, the 15th brightest star in the skies. Antares is a…

One of the most popular night sky objects for amateur astronomers is the star Albireo located in the constellation Cygnus the swan.To the human eye…

While Jupiter and Saturn dominate the summer evening skies, the fourth planet from the Sun, Mars, rises in the eastern skies a little after midnight in…

In 2007 NASA proposed a mission to look for New Earth Objects. The name of the mission was called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). In late…

Globular clusters are large collections of hundreds of thousands of stars in a gravitationally bound small area of space. They are one of most spectacular…

The stars Altair, Vega and Deneb are three stars that form what is known as the Summer Triangle. These three stars are not a constellation but form an…