Dr. Natalie Batalha of NASA’s Kepler Mission Project gives a public lecture about A Planet for Goldilocks: Kepler & the Search for Living Worlds – NASA’s Kepler Mission launched in 2009 with the objective of finding “Goldilocks planets” orbiting other stars […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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ESO: EXPRESSO next-gen planet hunter gets first light from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile
Dec06
The latest report from ESO: First Light for ESPRESSO — the Next Generation Planet Hunter The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) has successfully made its first observations. Installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are links to a set of How-To postings on receiving weather satellite images with a low cost home system that includes the conversion of a telescope mount into an automated antenna that follows weather satellites across the sky: Orbital […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
** NASA JPL: What’s Up for December 2017? ** Tonight’s Sky: December 2017 – Hubble Space Telescope ** NASA: Super Moons Trilogy: A series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on December 3, 2017, January 1, 2018, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest ESO (European Southern Observatory) report: MUSE Probes Uncharted Depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field Deepest ever spectroscopic survey completed Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from the ESO (European Southern Observatory): ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered ESO’s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet around Ross 128 A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An interesting story of an astronomer finding a way to continue her research after losing her eyesight: Wanda Diaz Merced: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars | TED Talk From the caption: Wanda Diaz Merced studies […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new ESO (European Southern Observatory) report: ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A preview from NASA JPL of night sky highlights for November: Catch planet pairs and watch the moon pass stellar superstars! See Jupiter and Venus at dawn, the Moon shine near star clusters, and meteor activity all month long. For more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are details from NASA about that object said to be passing by from beyond our solar system: Small Asteroid or Comet ‘Visits’ from Beyond the Solar System This animation shows the path of A/2017 U1, which is an asteroid […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from the Hubble Space Telescope collaboration: Hubble discovers “wobbling galaxies” Observations may hint at nature of dark matter Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the brightest galaxies within galaxy clusters “wobble” relative to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): Revealing Galactic Secrets Countless galaxies vie for attention in this monster image of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, some appearing only as pinpricks of light while others dominate the foreground. One of these is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from Hubble Space Telescope observatory: Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created by the merger of two neutron stars. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The company Unistellar is developing a small telescope called the evScope that includes an active light amplification system that greatly brightens and sharpens images: Turn the Amplified Vision ON and the system will start to accumulate light from the objects you are viewing all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula The spectacular planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles, lit up in glorious pinks and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hubble telescope spots an unusual pair of asteroids that orbit each other and also emit water vapor like the coma and tail of a comet: Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar System With the help of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from the ESO (European Southern Observatory) Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae. These observations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new finding with the Hubble Space Telescope: Hubble observes pitch black planet Astronomers have discovered that the well-studied exoplanet WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear essentially pitch black. This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): Inferno World with Titanium Skies ESO’s VLT makes first detection of titanium oxide in an exoplanet Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected titanium oxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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