Astronomy

Saturday August 6The waxing Moon is in the clutches of Scorpius in the south tonight, so let's look north instead for darker skies. Bright Vega in Lyra sits high in the north tonight, shining at magnitude 0. This star will one day sit…

Bastar gets an astronomy laboratory, children have the chance to develop their scientific temperament Determined to develop a scientific temperament in children and expose them to space science, the Bastar district administration of…

But this method only works when the source galaxy is bright enough to illuminate the lens galaxy. And because extremely distant galaxies are extremely faint, astronomers have so far been unable to assess dark matter in galaxies from around…

SpaceX is working on several upgrades to the company's Starlink satellites to keep them from bothering astronomers. The upgrades attempt to determine how Starlink satellites can reflect sunlight as they orbit Earth. That same light can…

Wednesday August 3The slowly waxing Moon is in Virgo tonight, not far from the magnificent double star Porrima (Gamma Virginias). Thanks to a telescope, this luminous point is divided into two of roughly equal magnitude: 3.65 and 3.56.…

These are exactly the questions that astronomers Stephen Kane and Zhexing Li of the University of California, Riverside pose in a recent paper now accepted for publication in the Journal of Planetary Science. After all, as the most massive…

Scorpius the Scorpio holds many of the most beautiful deep sky objects in the sky, including the spectacular globular cluster M4. This group of stars stands out for several reasons. First, at 7,200 light-years away, it's the closest…

M51, the fabulous Whirlpool Galaxy of Canes Venatici, is the largest (in apparent diameter) and brightest spiral in the night sky. It sports the iconic face of what astronomers call a “grand design spiral galaxy” – a galaxy that displays a…

The Webb and Hubble telescopes have blessed us with breathtaking new images of the cosmos earlier this month, leaving many inspired to learn more about the space. With these astronomy apps, you can use your phone to see which stars and…

It's often said, a picture is worth a thousand words and the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope did not disappoint. At the July 12 press conference, the world had a front row seat to the most remarkable images of…

By Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer It's often said, a picture is worth a thousand words and the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope did not disappoint. At the July 12 press conference, the world had a front row…

The golden age of Islam saw astronomy flourish. Here's a look at a handful of pioneering Muslim astronomers whose names are written in the stars.Images recently released by NASA, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), left Earth…

William Herschel first observed NGC 7635 in 1787 as a glow around the magnitude 8.7 star SAO 20575 (earlier cataloged as BD+60°2522). In a telescope, the Bubble Nebula looks more like a comma because the entire extent of its spherical…

The Badlands Astronomy Festival 2022 will be held July 29-31, bringing together space and science professionals, amateur astronomers, educators and visitors for a three-day celebration of the night sky, sun and the wonders…

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This story is just one example of the importance of astronomical art. Scientists publish their work in peer-reviewed journals, but astronomical realist painters translate the results to show what distant worlds would look like if we could…

While the Hubble Space Telescope took weeks to take such deep-field photos, JWST only spent 12.5 hours to grab this view of SMACS 0723 and beyond. It's more than just a pretty image, too, as JWST's flawless infrared vision even allowed…

Dale Hachtel People's Astronomy Club During our monthly public observing sessions at Niabi Zoo and during other observing programs, one of the most asked questions…

About six months have passed since the most powerful space telescope in history bid farewell to Earth and lifted off in darkness. Meanwhile, the James Webb Space Telescope has deployed its gold-coated mirrors, turned on its instruments,…

Journalists are warmly invited to attend the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomical Meeting (NAM 2022), taking place at the University of Warwick from 11-15 July. The largest regular…

Astronomy Photographer of the Year is a real treat for all astrophotography fans. The 2022 competition has just announced its shortlists, and as always, there are so many great photos in the selection.The Harvest Moon rising behind…

How do scientists study the atmospheres of planets that orbit other stars, light years away from us? How do we transmit data from dozens of NASA interplanetary missions around the solar system? Join us on Monday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. for…

Sunday July 3With only a thin crescent Moon in the sky, this evening is the perfect time to explore the beautiful region of Rho Ophiuchi in the south, located near - you guessed it - the star Rho (ρ) Ophiuchi in Ophiuchus the Serpentary.…

P waves and s waves form a group called body waves, which cut through the rock. The fastest are p-waves (primary or compression waves), which compress rocks as they pass through them. The movement of these waves is akin to someone at the…

The James Webb Space Telescope focuses on the bright star in the center for alignment assessment. This image of the star called 2MASS J17554042+6551277 uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast. Photo: NASA/STScI Check out the James…

One of the most amazing things in astronomy is the way it acts as a time travel machine. For example, sometimes we see things so far away that it takes light billions of years to reach us, so we see that object as it…

Calling Jupiter "huge" is not really relevant. At the equivalent of 318 Earths, the planet is gargantuan - and it feasts on other planets.Yes, it's true. The King of the Planets has won his throne, but don't mess with the frenzied beast…

Most observers would agree that, of all galaxies, barred spirals are the best targets for amateur telescopes. That said, it's a shame that the best example of a barred spiral - NGC 1365 - languishes in the nearly invisible constellation of…

On Saturday June 18, the fire subsided enough that Michelle Edwards, associate director of KPNO, and Joe Davis, security manager, accessed the property and found that the telescopes and domes were still standing. Unfortunately, some of the…

Comet 323P/SOHO was discovered in 1999, and has an orbit of fire and ice: In its deeply elliptical 4-year orbit around the Sun, it exits almost to the orbit of Jupiter, but then falls back just a hair more than 5 million…

For Neeraj Ladia, "astronomy" or staring into space has been the biggest mystery for humans. “You are amazed to see the movements in the sky, fantasizing about the magical shimmering existence. Astro watching led me to a different…

Dust collection Each star grows on its own schedule. The protostar stage is like the unstable adolescence of a star. When its accretion disk stabilizes and matter stops falling into the core, it becomes a main-sequence star. There may…

Parliament Arts Organization King Street Jam The Parliament Arts Organization will host the King Street Jam, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, in the Royal Square area of ​​York city centre. Nationally acclaimed musicians will play…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has released a wealth of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in a bid to create the most accurate and comprehensive map of our galaxy.Astronomers hope to use…

A team led by astronomers from UC Berkeley has for the first time discovered what they believe to be a floating black hole located between 2,280 and 6,260 light-years from Earth.This is an incredibly rare discovery, since black holes are…

In April I wrote that you could observe four planets online. Well,…

Sunday June 12The Moon occults or passes in front of Dschubba of 2nd magnitude (Delta Scorpii) tonight, visible to observers in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Our satellite rises before sunset; as the sky darkens,…

This month, early risers in Canada might see five planets lined up in the eastern sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. "You will see several bright objects in a row if you look east before sunrise," astrophysicist…

NASA will launch a mission that will both pass Venus and descend through its hostile atmosphere in 2029.…

Nine students from Maui participated in the University of Hawaii's HI STAR program to nurture interest in what exists in the universe and encourage careers in STEM. Photo Courtesy: UH Maui College King Kekaulike High School student…

Sunday June 5Saturn stands still against a backdrop of Capricorn stars at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The ringed planet is currently prominent in the pre-dawn sky, shining at magnitude 0.6 in the upper left (northeast) corner of Deneb Algedi. But…

M87 is another elliptical Messier galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 55 million light-years distant and some 120,000 light-years wide. It lies about 3½° northwest of Rho Virginis. But M87 surpasses M84 and M86 in terms of mass: it has at least…

If the solar system is only 4.6 billion years old but the universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, isn't it likely that other forms of life existed long before us in the universe? Bob Spangler Fruita, Colorado With…

A very strange meteorite discovered in western Egypt in 1996 may contain tiny bits of debris from a supernova, and not just any supernova, but a supernova created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the remnant core of a…

This ground image of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was taken on July 16, 2020 from the Northern Hemisphere. The inset image, taken on August 8, 2020, by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a close-up of the comet after passing through the Sun.…

The more I learn about the LA Rams' inside linebacker combination of veteran Bobby Wagner and sophomore linebacker Ernest Jones, the more I like it. Historically, the LA Rams had continued to devote their resources to other positions on…

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On a series On 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they found something odd: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.“We found an image where nine stars were there,…

In addition to observing distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will study our solar system. 1 creditthehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIlMIr5nhEThe James Webb Space Telescope will be the next…

At dawn on Sunday, May 29, Jupiter and Mars are only 0.6 degrees (36 arc minutes) apart on the east-southeast horizon. On a flat horizon, bright Venus can be seen more than 25 degrees east of Jupiter and Mars. This is the view of London…

NASA has requested $24 billion in funding from the US government for fiscal year 2022.  This month, legislators are discussing the request. According to The Register, the expensive budget is still over $760.2 million, a bit less than!-->!-->!-->…

Dust is a common component of spiral galaxies. Astronomers believe this dust is carbon- or silicate-rich and no more than 0.25 microns wide. This does not greatly affect the brightness of galaxies, except in cases where they appear almost…

Keiki and other community members visit one of the booths provided by a participating organization on Saturday, May 14 during AstroDay at Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo. (Photos by Nathan Christopher) At least one future astronaut, one…

Black holes are, by definition, places where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. So they are black - dark - and impossible to imagine. To the right? As evidenced by the success of the Event Horizon telescope, we can…

The best-known asteroid to collide with Earth is the Chicxulub crater, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago. It is known for having wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as three quarters of life on the planet. Other huge…

The most glorious of all globular clusters is Omega Centauri. (NGC 5139 is its more commonplace designation.) It is the 24th brightest "star" in Centaurus, which is the ninth largest of the 88 constellations. It was noted in Ptolemy's…

Sending new messages Nearly half a century after the Arecibo message, two international teams of astronomers are planning new attempts at extraterrestrial communication. One uses a giant new radio telescope and the other chooses a…

Why does Bennu spit pebbles into space? It's one of the weirdest things he does, and that's saying something. Bennu is a small asteroid just over 500 meters across. It has the shape of two cones glued together base to…

Published: 11:00 a.m. 7 May 2022 Alan Willison, President of the Hertford Astronomy Group, continues his beginner's guide to getting started in astronomy. An astrophysicist at Bayfordbury Observatory in!-->>-->!-->>-->!-->!-->!-->…

They are hosting a day of sky-related events from 4-10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, in honor of National Astronomy Day, and it will be well worth your time to sign up. The observatory is north of Maumelle Lake in far eastern Perry County,…

By Alan Sheidler People's Astronomy Club I must admit that I have always been interested in speed. The speed at which things move has always fascinated me.What is…

In the distant past, Mars was extremely volcanic. In some ways this is obvious. The Tharsis region, a little smaller than the continental United States, has 12 major volcanoes, including Olympus Mons, the largest…

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April 30 will be full of astronomical events: a partial solar eclipse is coming, which will not be visible from Italy, and at the same time Venus and Jupiter will put on a show at dawn. "These are two of the brightest planets to observe…

https://ift.tt/zFD3Tx1Start-up Astronomy & Space EdTech based in Hyderabad "Navars Edutech" do it guinness world record simultaneous viewings of over 1,750 students watching an astronomy lesson broadcast live on YouTube.…

Throughout human history until 1959, the dark side of the Moon was invisible to our eyes. The Moon rotates once each time it orbits Earth, and this synchronization keeps one side of the Moon pointed towards us and the…

Lindsey Gordon holds a first-year Ph.D. in Astrophysics. student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her past research has focused on exoplanets, quasars and particle accelerators, but she is currently working on…

Isn't it comforting to see mother duck paddling, with her ducklings…

friday april 22The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight. Its radiant, located near the luminous Vega in Lyra the Lyre, rises around 8 p.m. local time. For the best shower night vision, you'll want to let that radiation go as high as…

The historic under-regulation of the Earth's atmosphere and the orbital space around it has brought the astronomy and space communities to a critical point where action is needed to move towards a sustainable future. .…

Dr Ann-Marie Madigan – astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, Boulder From large to small, from galaxies to planetesimals, Professor Ann-Marie Madigan is interested in everything. Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan is assistant…

The night sky is a great lever, something that people from all walks of life have been able to look up to and be inspired by. Unfortunately, the ability to observe planets and stars and study the mysteries of the Universe is something…

April's full moon will light up the sky all weekend, and while it's called the pink moon, it's not really…

One of the courses I'm taking this semester is SCI-112, Structure of the Universe, which is a science course with a lab focused on astronomy. This is arguably one of the most popular courses offered at Suffolk Madrid, as the lab takes…

It takes expensive tools to learn more about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have advanced the scientific knowledge in a way that…

The Golden Pond Planetarium and Observatory and West Kentucky Amateur Astronomers (WKAA) are gearing up for what should be a fun day of astronomy. Scheduled for Saturday, May 7, the planetarium will feature activities for!-->!-->!-->…

Could life exist on a dwarf planet? Three things are necessary for life: liquid water, a source of energy, and organic molecules, that is to say molecules containing carbon. More than 100 miles (161 kilometers) below Pluto's surface, a…

HONOLULU (KHON2) – The Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will hold its annual open house on Sunday, April 10, after taking a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 19. The open house will be…

Go figure Schiaparelli began observing Mercury at its greatest elongation east of the Sun on February 6, 1882, corresponding to the planet's appearance as an evening star. At this date, he succeeded in distinguishing a "large system of…

Foresight is an incredible gift – and it is perhaps one of the most valuable scientific tools we have.When…