—Fresh off of my morning viewing session that bagged three new planets to my list of ’seen’ objects, I decided to beat the weather and try again last night. Cool night, and clear skies inspired another jaunt down the hill with my scope and goodies. —First up for good measure was Saturn again. This t ...
Chomrong sits at what could be described as the crux of the Annapurna Sanctuary trek. It’s a small hillside town, much like many others in the Conservation Area, and is characteristically spread over a vertical kilometre of mountain, connected by a broad, steep and uneven staircase that has broken t ...
Illustration credit: Heidi SagerudWhen reading about scientific discoveries, it is always important to remember Professor Astronomy's Discovery Law: The last person to discover something gets the credit. Yesterday, a news story was released on a nice bit of research that is "the first solid evidence ...
The finding in a distant galaxy approximately 290 million light years from Earth is reported today in the journal Nature. Until now, identified black holes have been either super-massive (several million to several billion times the mass of the Sun) in the centre of galaxies, or about the size of a ...
Bueno aqui el video de las Milky Way, Tan tan taan!. Es el Dance version, espero que les guste. Aqui les dejo el link para que lo descarguen. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zniz0it1wwm
Image Credit: ESO/APEX & MSX/IPAC/NASAΣτην φωτογραφία φαίνεται η περιοχή RCW120 από το ATLASGAL τού APEX (APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy).Πρόκειται για μια περιοχή, στο εσωτερικό τού Γαλαξία, με διαστελλόμενες φυσαλλίδες ιονισμένου αερίου και πλάτος περίπου δέκα έτη φωτός. Το αέριο λ ...
It’s late in the day – so late that in human terms, the day will soon become a new one. In cosmic terms, this passing of the time is insignificant. Looking up, this cosmos speaks to me in its ancient language of energy, light and awe. Standing alone in the Karoo, I look around seeing darkness in its ...