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16/05/2013 |
Fiery Ribbon in the sky
Dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of
Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. The
orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold
interstellar dust at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see.
It was observed by the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder
Experiment (APEX) in Chile.
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10/05/2013 |
Annular Eclipse May 2013
With plenty of solar sunnies and
safety telescope aperture filters left over from last years
total solar eclipse event, amateurs around the nation turned
their attention to the Sun once more to witness a different type
of solar eclipse event known as a annular eclipse. Many managed
to take some excellent portraits in less than favourable
conditions.
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30/04/2013 |
NEW RELEASE G1 camera from Moravian Instruments
The G1-1200 is a low cost, highly sensitive auto-guider that can
also be used as a lunar & planetary imager uses a Sony ICX445
image sensor with EXview HAD technology offering high quantum
efficiency comparable to cameras employing much more expensive
ICX285 CCD. The 1/3" detector format (4.9 × 3.6 mm) and small
pixels (3.75 × 3.75 μm) will suit short focal length guiding
telescopes nicely.
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11/04/2013 |
Ghostly Green Bubble
This intriguing new image from the VLT shows the green glowing
planetary nebula
IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star. Located about 3300
light-years away in the constellation of Scutum this is the most
detailed image of this object ever taken.
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14/03/2013 |
ALMA Rewrites History of Universe's Stellar Baby Boom
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter
Array (ALMA) show that the most vigorous bursts of star birth in
the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought. The
record-breaking haul of distant galaxies includes most distant
detection of water published to date.
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07/03/2013 |
New Distance to LMC determined
After nearly a decade of careful observations an
international team of astronomers has measured more accurately
the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic
Cloud. This new measurement of 163 000 light-years also improves
our knowledge of the rate of expansion of the Universe — the
Hubble Constant — and is a crucial step towards understanding
the nature of the mysterious dark energy that is causing the
expansion to accelerate.
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07/03/2013 |
New infrared VISTA image of NGC 6357
New image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery known as NGC 6357 in a surprising new light.
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12/02/2013 |
NASA to keep watch on asteroid
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be under intense scrutiny as it zips past Earth this week.
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21/01/2013 |
The Manatee Nebula
A NEW VIEW of a 20,000-year-old supernova remnant and shows how this
giant cloud resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida
Manatee.
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17/01/2012 |
Light from the Darkness
An evocative new image from ESO shows a dark cloud where new stars
are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have
already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. The new picture
was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla
Observatory in Chile and is the best image ever taken in visible
light of this little-known object.
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13/01/2013 |
Siding Spring Hit by NSW fires.
Australia's biggest observatory, at Siding Spring, west of
Coonabarabran, were destroyed by a ''fast moving, large and
dangerous'' bushfire on Sunday night, as the fire emergency
continued across large areas of NSW. Our thoughts are with friends
and colleagues in Coonabarabran.
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05/01/2013 |
Tantalising signs of flows feeding gas-guzzling giant planets
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimetre
/ submillimetre Array (ALMA) telescope have seen a key stage in the
birth of giant planets for the first time. Vast streams of gas are
flowing across a gap in the disc of material around a young star.
These are the first direct observations of such streams, which are
expected to be created by giant planets guzzling gas as they grow.
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18/12/2012 |
Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 19 meters north-eastward on
December 10th approaching a slight step down into a lower area known
as "Yellowknife Bay," This drive was Curiosity's fourth consecutive
driving day since leaving the site called "Point Lake," where it
arrived last month. Researchers will use Curiosity's percussive
drill to collect a sample from the interior of a rock, a feat never
before attempted on Mars, and which is the mission's priority for
early 2013.
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13/12/2012 |
Sky-Watcher announces a
new cross compatible SynScan official firmware release (version
3.32), and the new instruction manual of SynScan hand control is
also available for download. This firmware works both with SynScan
EQ and AZ mounts.
Read more here
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14/11/2012 |
SN2012fr in Fornax galaxy NGC1365
Splendid wide-field
image of a rich galaxy field within Fornax shows the recently
discovered supernova SN2012fr in NGC1365 captured with the excellent
Orion optics -uk AG12 astrograph telescope.
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17/10/2012 |
ESO’s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha
Centauri B
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of
the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest
to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a
star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS
instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory
in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17
October 2012.
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07/10/2012 |
VLT image of Thor’s Helmet nebula was taken on the
occasion of ESO’s 50th Anniversary, 5 October 2012. The observation
was broadcast live over the internet from the Paranal Observatory in
Chile. NGC 2359 is in the constellation of Canis Major. The
helmet-shaped nebula is around 15,000 light years from Earth and is
over 30 light-years across. The helmet itself is a cosmic bubble,
blown as the wind from the bright massive star near its centre
sweeps through the surrounding molecular cloud.
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06/09/2012 |
New image from ESO’s
La Silla Observatory of the famous globular cluster Messier 4 in
Scorpius. This ball of tens of thousands of ancient stars is one of
the closest and most studied of the globular clusters and recent
work has revealed that one of its stars has strange and unexpected
properties, apparently possessing the secret of eternal youth.
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26/08/2012 |
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has past away at the age
of 82
Former astronaut underwent heart-bypass surgery this month, just two
days after his birthday on August 5, to relieve blocked coronary
arteries. As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became
the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. courtesy
ABC
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10/08/2012 |
Moravian G4-16000 CCD camera helps discovery of unique quadruple
star
CzeV343 was discovered while monitoring of a patch of sky in
constellation Auriga around variable star MR Aur, performed between
January and April 2012. CzeV343 was among 44 variable stars (and
variable star suspects) detected in the field of view, among which
only three variable stars were previously known (MR Aur, FV Aur and
RZ Aur). The discovery was made using a
Moravian Instruments G4-16000 CCD camera on commercial 25 cm
Newtonian telescope.
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06/08/2012 |
MARS Mission Curiosity touchdown!
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.,
celebrate the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on the Red Planet.
The rover touched down on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of
Aug. 6 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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28/07/2012 |
Vixen X-Y Guide mount and Multi-plate for zero flexure photography Check out a great option for mounting two or even
three telescopes on a single mount and how the excellent new low weight Vixen X-Y guider
with 6.5 degree up and down adjustment couples easily to the Vixen multi-plate system for
a rock solid guide scope set up.
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08/07/2012 |
iOptron's Solar 60 GOTO refractor package We recently reviewed the neat and highly affordable
iOptron mini-refractor with GOTO mount and full aperture glass solar filter. With its goto
capability and packaged in a neat carry bag including eyepiece and camera, it can be used
in a host of ways and even with other scopes you may already own.
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03/07/2012 |
A NEW way of probing the atmospheres of exoplanets For the first time a clever new technique has
allowed astronomers to study the atmosphere of an exoplanet in detail — even though
it does not pass in front of its parent star. An international team has used ESO’s
VLT to directly catch the faint glow from the planet Tau Boötis b. They have studied the
planet’s atmosphere and measured its orbit and mass precisely for the first time.
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21/06/2012 |
VLT Takes a Close Look at NGC 6357
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)
has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery
called NGC 6357. The view shows many hot young stars, glowing clouds of gas and weird dust
formations sculpted by ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds.
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26/05/2012 |
Australia to share in world’s
largest telescope
Australian technology to power a major portion of the Square Kilometre Array telescope.
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06/05/2012 |
Ultraluminous X-ray emission could be a
giveaway for a new class of black hole
Scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes have
identified an "ultraluminous X-ray source" in the spiral galaxy M83 that has
increased its output in X-rays by 3,000 times over the course of several years.
Researchers think the X-rays could be coming from a member of a population of black holes
that up until now was suspected to exist but had not been confirmed.
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08/04/2012 |
Saturn with commercial grade telescope and camera
AstroShop puts the DBK618 colour camera and 12-inch Black Diamond Newtonian telescope to
the test in very good seeing conditions to reveal a swirling and dynamic atmosphere long
after the storm of 2011.
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28/03/2012 |
Billions of super-Earths "out there"
Rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around
faint red stars, say astronomers. The international team used a “planet finder”
instrument to estimate that there are tens of billions of such planets in the Milky Way
galaxy alone, and probably about 100 in the Sun’s immediate neighbourhood.
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17/03/2012 |
Unknown
objects at the limits
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope has found hundreds of new objects in deep space, but
astronomers have no idea what they are.
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25/02/2012 |
Star formation in “dark markings of
the sky”
Part of the Taurus Molecular Cloud, shows a sinuous filament of
cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense
clouds of gas are on the verge of collapsing to form yet more stars.
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11/02/2012 |
Amazing NEW Ha
Solar Images from GSTAR-EX camera Fantastic new image from Australian solar imager, Derek Klepp using the
GSTAR-EX CCD video camera.
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10/01/2012 |
The
amazing Omega Nebula
Sharpest ever view of one of the Milky Way’s youngest and most active stellar
nurseries for massive stars.
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09/01/2012 |
Strange new type of Ultra-Red
Galaxy Discovered
In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion
light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed
by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't spy it. It took the
revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably
red galaxies.
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