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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14 12/02/2013 NASA to keep watch on asteroid

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be under intense scrutiny as it zips past Earth this week.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
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.


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.

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.
 

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.


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

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.

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.

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.


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.


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.


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.
Artist's impression of SKA dishes 26/05/2012 Australia to share in world’s largest telescope

Australian technology to power a major portion of the Square Kilometre Array telescope.

X-ray glow from within galaxy M83 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.

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.

Artist's impression of a red star with a planet 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.

Fermi map of the sky 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.

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.

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.


Omega Nebula 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.

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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