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…
A preview of the night sky for January:
As noted here back in March (see First images from the UV telescope on Chang’e-3 lander), the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) based in Hawaii is collaborating with the National Astronomical Observatories -Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an info-graphic from astroshop.eu about possible astronomical explanations for the Star of Bethlehem:
The latest science from the European Southern Observatory (ESO): The Hot Blue Stars of Messier 47 This spectacular image of the star cluster Messier 47 was taken using the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rick Boozer on his Astro Maven blog has posted the fourth installment of his Photometry with AIP4WIN: a Tutorial, which is aimed at astronomers both amateur and professional: Part 4 – Image Calibration Part 3 Flat-field preparation Part 2 Bias and dark frames Part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a preview of the night sky for December:
Here are two new episodes of Xploration Outer Space Online – Free at Hulu : * Our Dynamic Sun | Hulu * The Life and Death of Stars | Hulu
Continuing my Christmas shopping advice tradition, I’m again recommending that readers consider The Year In Space Desk Calendar and Year In Space Wall Calendar as gifts for others and as well as for yourselves. My wife has used the space desk calendar for years and years and I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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