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India tops medal count at Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad
New Delhi: India recorded an outstanding performance at the 14th International Olympiad of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2021, hosted by Colombia, and held online from November 14-21, 2021.
India was placed in the first position,…
Going to the Sunspot Astronomy and Visitors Center is a journey through our galaxy and beyond
It's no secret that New Mexico's night sky makes it a great place for stargazing.
But the factors that make it so ideal for nighttime viewing - like low air pollution and a dry climate - also make it a place for solar viewing.…
Bad astronomy | Hubble spies on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope is pointed at each of the four giant outer planets in our solar system - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - as part of a program to monitor their atmosphere.
All four turn…
Bad astronomy | Guide to viewing the lunar eclipse of November 18, 2021
From Thursday evening / Friday morning, the sky will offer a spectacle: a lunar eclipse, when the Moon enters and leaves the Earth's shadow. It strongly favors viewers in North America, but will be visible in parts of…
Bad astronomy | HD 3167 has 2 planets in orbit perpendicular to a third
One of the most obvious things about our solar system is that all of the major planets orbit the Sun in roughly the same plane. If you looked at the solar system "from the side" it would appear almost flat.
This is a…
Bad Astronomy | More mergers of black holes and neutron stars observed
A very large team of astronomers announced they discovered 35 new mergers of compact objects - from black holes and / or neutron stars - on top of those previously found in recent years, which now makes a total of 90…
Five reasons the geosciences should care about the new astronomy roadmap
A new 600-page report released yesterday describes what the field of astronomy hopes to accomplish over the next 10 years. Discovery paths in astronomy and astrophysics for the 2020s, or Astro2020 for short, is the seventh and final…
The sky this week from November 5 to 12
Monday, November 8
Cassiopeia the queen is easily recognizable in the northern sky, thanks to the W-shaped asterism formed by five of its stars. Tonight, turn your gaze in its direction to find NGC 663, an open star cluster also known as…
Astronomy: the skies over northern Essex throughout November
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12:00 p.m. 5 November 2021
James Abbott from North Essex Astronomical Society on what we can see this month.
The last month of autumn brings a return to the short days with the sun setting at 4 p.m. GMT in the middle of the!-->!-->!-->…
Bad astronomy | The search for planet nine is still going on
In recent years, some astronomers have been searching for another planet in the solar system, a planet much larger than Earth that orbits the Sun far beyond Neptune. Not so cheeky, they called it Planet 9.
This space…