These websites provide knowledge about exoplanets, eclipses, tides, comets, stars, galaxy and other topics about astronomy.
[3] The website, available in English and German, featured a calendar (and/or email notifications) generated for your location including information on aurora, comets, tides, solar and lunar eclipses, planets, bright satellite passes (ISS, HST, etc.
It is part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) and is on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA.
At that time, Dobbs owned a sizeable share of the company, and, in an unexpected move, left CNN later that year to become Space.com's chief executive officer.
[12] Universe Today (UT) is a non-commercial space and astronomy news site, founded in 1999[13] by Fraser Cain and edited by Nancy Atkinson.
[17][18] Emily Lakdawalla, of The Planetary Society, said that she relies on Universe Today and Bad Astronomy to "give ... an independent look at big news stories"[19] and that UT plays a key role in space-related journalism, along with other websites such as Space.com.
[18][23] In March 2011, Businessweek reported that the site had lost 20 percent of its traffic in five days after a change in the page ranking algorithm of Google.
[24] In April 2011, the Association of British Science Writers noted that Universe Today decided to ignore embargoed stories.