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…
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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…
NextBigFuture.com hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): SPHERE Reveals Fascinating Zoo of Discs Around Young Stars New images from the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new finding with the Hubble Telescope: Hubble uses cosmic lens to discover most distant star ever observed Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered. The hot blue star existed only 4.4 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL posts this guide to the night sky for April: A more detailed account of April’s night sky highlights from the Hubble Telescope Institute: ====
The latest finding from the Hubble Space Telescope: Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pink Floyd notwithstanding, there is no “Dark side of the Moon” any more than there is a dark side of the earth. The Moon rotates just like earth does, continually changing which half of the sphere is in sunlight and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESA/Hubble: A peculiar galactic clash Galaxies are not static islands of stars — they are dynamic and ever-changing, constantly on the move through the darkness of the Universe. Sometimes, as seen in this spectacular Hubble image […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new finding by the Hubble Telescope: Hubble observes exoplanet atmosphere in more detail than ever before An international team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of the hot exoplanet WASP-39b. By combining […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is NASA JPL’s latest preview of the night sky for the coming month: And here is the Hubble Institute‘s: ====
Here is the NASA JPL “What’s Up for February 2018” astronomy highlights: And here is the Hubble space telescope institute’s latest “Tonight’s Sky”: Speaking of space telescopes, here is a recent public talk about the huge James Webb Space Telescope, which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from the ESO (European Southern Observatory): Glory From Gloom A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. This dense cloud is a star-forming region […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Scott Tilley, an “amateur visual and radio astronomer”, recently discovered that a NASA science satellite that went silent in 2005 had begun transmitting again: Amateur astronomer discovers a revived NASA satellite | Science/AAAS The astronomer, Scott Tilley, spends his free time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Electron rocket launched last weekend from New Zealand by Rocket Lab had an unannounced payload aboard in addition to three small commercial spacecraft. The Humanity Star is a a bright, blinking satellite now orbiting Earth, visible to the naked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): First Light for Planet Hunter ExTrA at La Silla A new national facility at ESO’s La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Lonely Black Hole Hiding in Giant Star Cluster Astronomers using ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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