A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): VLT Makes Most Precise Test of Einstein’s General Relativity Outside Milky Way Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have made […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The latest news from ESO (European Southern Observatory): ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star Novel technique to find youngest planets in our galaxy The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has transformed our understanding of protoplanetary discs — the gas- and dust-filled […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Videos: Boulder-sized asteroid discovered in space shortly before causing fireball over South Africa
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A two meter wide meteoroid was tracked in space last Saturday and later that day he created a fireball over South Africa. This video shows the “Meteor 2018 LA (ZLAF9B2) [as] seen from farm between Ottosdal and Hartebeesfontein North West […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): ALMA and VLT Find Too Many Massive Stars in Starburst Galaxies, Near and Far Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a star-forming region […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL’s latest preview of night sky sights for the coming month: Enjoy a ringside seat for Saturn, plus a nightlong parade featuring Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Vesta! And here is the Hubble Telescope Institute‘s preview for June: In June, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A view by the Hubble Space Telescope of a grand galactic smashup Cosmic collision lights up the darkness Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256 is actually the site of a violent clash. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): A Crowded Neighbourhood Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way. The VLT […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of TMRO.tv Space is now available on line at: Riverside Telescope Makers Conference – Orbit 11.21 – TMRO We have Space Mike at the @ISDC 2018 Expo and Jared at the @RTMCAstroExpo 2018 Astronomy Expo! Jared sits down […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new exoplanet finder TESS tries out its camera and gets a shot of a whole lot of stars: NASA’s New Planet Hunter Snaps Initial Test Image, Swings by Moon NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest news from ESO (European Southern Observatory): ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to determine […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new documentary film In Saturn’s Rings, narrated by LeVar Burton, shows striking scenes of space travel and exploration using only actual images observed with telescopes, space probes, and astronaut cameras. No computer generated artists’ creations are included but techniques developed by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest news from ESO (European Southern Observatory): Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team found that the unusual […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dr. Michael Busch of the SETI Institute recently gave the following talk in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series sponsored by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Rubble Piles in the Sky: The Science, Exploration, and Danger of Near-Earth Asteroids – Near-Earth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Observations of planets around other stars continue to produce a steady stream of “firsts”: Hubble Detects Helium in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet for the First Time Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected helium in the atmosphere of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL provides a list of the top sights in the night sky for May: See also the Hubble Space Telescope Institute‘s May 2018 night sky preview: ====
In 2014 the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe went into orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and spent a couple of years studying it. Jacint Roger Perez combined a series of 33 images made during a 25 minute period as the probe flew about 13 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory); Ancient Galaxy Megamergers The ALMA and APEX telescopes have peered deep into space — back to the time when the Universe was one tenth of its current age — and witnessed the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for April 23rd is more painterly than usual: Note that processing of an infrared image allows for considerable freedom in how the final rendering appears. In this case, it was rendered with great artistry […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some beautiful pictures of the Lagoon Nebula from the Hubble: Hubble celebrates 28th anniversary with a trip through the Lagoon Nebula This colourful cloud of glowing interstellar gas is just a tiny part of the Lagoon Nebula, a vast stellar […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully put TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) on the first (big) step to its final operational orbit, which will have an apogee nearly as far out as the Moon and an perigee far […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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