As Sun Flares Up, Sky Watchers Check Microphones The sun is emerging from a two-year period of quiet, and that's good news to amateur radio astronomers like Thomas Ashcraft. He records the sounds ...

They stretch 50 miles into Earth’s upper atmosphere. They shower the night sky with shimmering bursts of light. They emit a crackling “ping” over radio. And because they’re so fast ...

Every summer evening at 7 o’clock, Thomas Ashcraft receives a personalized weather report. It’s advice from a meteorologist in Colorado on where to look for the massive thunderstorms that ...

A New Mexico astronomer is hoping you can help solve a mystery.He caught a spectacular fireball on video and he said you can help him track down what's left of it.Thomas Ashcraft caught a cosmic ...

Amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft doesn't like to just look at space: He also listens to it. Last weekend, he picked up the radio emissions resulting from a relatively small (C 2.9 ...

The recording above comes from either a short wave radio station or a Ham radio transmission, said amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft, who works with NASA’s Radio JOVE project.

[Videoof the Sept. 21 fireball.]? "I was inside at the time, but heard and felt thesonic boom," said radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft, who operates theall-sky camera 20 miles (32 km) outside of ...

"I have photos predating discovery, but I did not appreciate their significance until Hank pointed them out in video," another citizen scientist and TLE observer, Thomas Ashcraft, who was not ...

In early January it was announced that Thomas Ashcraft was one of three Texas football players giving up their final seasons of collegiate eligibility. Instead of giving up, however, the offensive ...