The Stanford Arts Institute is sponsoring a year long program organized around the theme of cosmology and the arts: Stanford Arts Institute launches Imagining the Universe program – Stanford Daily . Imagining the Universe will combine the arts, humanities and sciences to explore our understanding of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mars presents a new mystery: Mystery Mars plume baffles scientists Observations of a mysterious plume-like feature (marked with yellow arrow) at the limb of the Red Planet on 20 March 2012. The observation was made by astronomer W. Jaeschke. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new study from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) : Stellar Partnership Doomed to End in Catastrophe First pair of merging stars destined to become supernova found Astronomers using ESO facilities in combination with telescopes in the Canary Islands have identified two […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An ESA Hubble team released the following cool images this week: March of the moons Hubble captures rare triple moon transit of Jupiter These new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture a rare occurrence as three of Jupiter’s largest moons parade across […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a preview of highlights in the night sky this month: Bonus: Here is a nice view of the aurora as seen from the Int. Space Station:
Dr. William Borucki, the force behind the Kepler exo-planet finding observatory, gave an update last night on the John Batchelor radio program: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 2-4-15 – Thespaceshow’s Blog – http://archived.thespaceshow.com/shows/2408-BWB-2015-02-04.mp3 David Livingston, who co-hosts the weekly Hotel Mars segment on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last summer I wrote about a LEGO scratch model of the Hubble Telescope, which could become an official production model by LEGO if it was popular enough. (See The Hubble observatory in LEGO.) LEGO allows LEGO modelers to post about their creations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) releases the latest observation highlight: VISTA Stares Right Through the Milky Way New infrared view of the Trifid Nebula reveals new variable stars far beyond A new image taken with ESO’s VISTA survey telescope reveals the famous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ESO (European Southern Observatory) posts the latest finding: The Mouth of the Beast Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG4 glows menacingly in this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Although it looks huge and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An asteroid half a kilometer in diameter will pass near earth on Monday: Giant asteroid is about to give Earth a close call – Sen.com Here is the original NASA JPL story: Asteroid to Fly By Earth Safely on January 26 (See […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The late composer Gérard Grisey created the work Le Noir de l’étoile based around pulsars : Sounds of the cosmos, as muse and metronome – The Boston Globe – But for all of our skyward magniloquence over the years, the universe has rarely answered back. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently posted about a super-high resolution image obtained by the Hubble telescope of the the Andromeda Galaxy. Here is another zoom-in video that gives a sense of the enormity of this one galaxy, which is one member of a universe packed with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rick Boozer on his Astro Maven blog has posted the fifth and final installment of Photometry with AIP4WIN: a Tutorial, which is aimed at astronomers both amateur and professional: Part 5 – Setting up and performing differential photometry Part 4 – Image Calibration […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest news item from ESO (European Southern Observatory): New Exoplanet-hunting Telescopes on Paranal The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) has achieved first light at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. This project will search for transiting exoplanets — planets that pass in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A number of projects are showing that finding and studying exoplanets can be done with relatively low cost systems: : Brave new world-hunters spot exoplanets on the cheap – New Scientist. Such systems do not replace the space-based observatories like Kepler or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A citizen-science project with NASA’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey) mission has been a quite successful: Volunteer ‘Disk Detectives’ Top 1 Million Classifications of Possible Planetary Habitats A NASA-sponsored website designed to crowdsource analysis of data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest news from the European Southern Observatory (ESO): Where Did All the Stars Go? Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars 7 January 2015: Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Further analysis of data from the Kepler space observatory results in another big batch of candidate exoplanets plus eight former candidates are moving to the verified category. Several new candidates are in the earth sized range and orbit in their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another release from the ESA/Hubble program: Andromeda in HD Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of neighbouring spiral Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another spectacular image from the Hubble space telescope: Revisiting an icon Hubble captures the Pillars of Creation twenty years on The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured many breathtaking images of the Universe, but one snapshot stands out from the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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