Looking Skyward

This time on Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the recent display of Northern Lights caused by unusual solar activity.

After a few months of garbled data from the long-serving Voyager 1 spacecraft, NASA has restored communications. CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the effort to get back in touch with the space probe.

CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about a star system 3,000 light-years away from Earth that will become visible to the unaided eye.

We will be able to observe two very different eclipses this spring; a lunar eclipse in March and a solar eclipse in April.In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory about this celestial events.

Astronomers have recently discovered two galaxies that might present a challenge to a broadly accepted theory of how galaxies form. In this edition of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile discusses this discovery with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket.

In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about two recent missions to learn more about asteroids.

The United States is in the path of the next two solar eclipses. The first occurs this month (October). The second, and more dramatic, eclipse is not until next April.

This time on Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the autumnal equinox coming on Saturday, September 23.

In this installment of Looking Skyward, CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about India's successful landing of a spacecraft near the moon's south pole.

In this installment of Looking Skyward, Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket talks with CAI's John Basile about the first images from the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope.