An announcement from the BoldlyGo Institute: BoldlyGo Institute & Corning Incorporated Announce $1.8 Million Equipment Gift For Astro-1 Space Telescope Project With Long History of Working on Astronomical Telescopes, Corning Donates Key Components of 1.8-Meter Space Telescope Primary Mirror BoldlyGo Institute Aims to Launch ASTRO-1 by Mid-2020’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hubble telescope looks at three gas giants, or “Hot Jupiters”, around distant stars that are similar to our sun and find little sign of water: Surprised scientists come up ‘nearly dry’ in search for water on ‘hot Jupiter’ planets – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A reader pointed me to these posts that look at several topics related to the growth in information technologies and their use in science, which generates ever more data: Will we ever Skype from the Moon? – Community Site News.. Will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a video of the panel discussion yesterday about the search for life on planets orbiting other stars (see earlier posting): Caption: NASA space-based observatories are making unprecedented new discoveries and revealing worlds never before seen. During a televised […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fermi paradox seems to be getting more attention these days: The Fermi Paradox -Wait But Why – Huffington Post The Fermi Paradox – The Washington Post
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with a square kilometre (one million square metres) of collecting area. The scale of the SKA represents a huge leap forward in both engineering and research & […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uwingu was attacked by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) when it started a program to allow the public to select names for exoplanets : Uwingu Responds to the IAU, and Extension of People’s Choice Contest to Choose a Name for the Planet […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The two largest asteroids – Ceres and Vesta – will appear to have a close approach this weekend: Watch Historic Meeting of Two Monster Asteroids in the Sky This Weekend – News Watch Not since their discovery more than 200 years ago […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another paper based on analysis done by citizen scientist contributors to the Planet Hunters program has been accepted by a scientific journal: Latest Science Paper Accepted for Publication: The First Kepler Seven Planet Candidate System and 13 Other Planet Candidates from the Kepler […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL’s report on what to look for in the night sky in July:
UNAWE or Universe Awareness is a program started in Europe that seeks to educate children aged 4-10 years (especially those from underprivileged communities) about astronomy because it embodies a unique combination of scientific and cultural aspects: Our awe-inspiring Universe captures the imagination of children, making […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Images from multiple amateur telescopic images of a given region of the sky can be combined using tools at Astrometry.net to create the equivalent of super long exposures. The results can be Here’s an article and paper about this crowd-sources approach to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Vincent Brady has developed a marvelous technique for combining 360 degree views of the night sky and landscape with time-lapse sequences of long exposures to create gorgeous imagery like those in the video below. Find more about his work on his website: Vincent Brady […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The European Southern Observatory (ESO), which already has several major telescopes in Chile, has begun construction of a new one whose name says it all: European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). With a 39 meter primary mirror, it should be called the European […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A group of Swedish amateur astronomers took a sequence of images of Jupiter with their telescopes over three months and created a timelapse video that emulates the approach to the planet take by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979: Stunning Amateur Timelapse of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Voice actor Peter Cullen gives a brief description of the James Webb Space Telescope project (but doesn’t explain how its price went from $1.6B to $8.8B):
Beautiful time-lapse imagery of the night sky taken by photographer Nicholas Buer in the high desert region of Chile known as San Pedro de Atacama, a place revered by astronomers for having some of Earths cleanest, darkest skies
A radar view of asteroid 2014 HQ124 as it passed not too far from earth on June 8th: From the caption: Radar data of asteroid 2014 HQ124 taken over four hours on June 8, 2014, when the asteroid was between […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I recently pointed to the imaging by Ralf Vandebergh of a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage as it passed over Belgium. Here is a video made by astrophotographer whiz Thierry Legault of a SpaceX Dragon from the same launch back in April as it passed over Paris […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from ESO (European Southern Observatory): First Light for SPHERE Exoplanet Imager Revolutionary new VLT instrument installed SPHERE — the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument — has been installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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