TagsTagsHave you always wanted to control where to point the Hubble Space Telescope? Now you can: Hubble’s Next Discovery - You Decide. YOU’RE IN CONTROL! In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous ...
Added to the RSS feeds in our left sidebar: APOD, the acronym for Astronomy Picture of the Day, where today’s featured image is “The Dumbbells:” gaseous remnants of dying sunlike stars. Explanation: These two nebulae are cataloged as M27 (left) and M76, popularly known as The Dumbbell and the Little ...
This week astronomers announced the first pictures of planets circling other stars, but if you saw the photos released by the wire services you might have wondered, “Where?” Here’s a good illustration from APOD, showing the planet and its position within the giant ring of dust that surrounds Fomalhaut. They’ve given ...
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The Sun, as you’ve never seen it before.
Revealed in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope: gigantic gaseous filaments up to 20,000 light years long, shaped by the magnetic field of a super-massive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1275. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and A.C. Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK)
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The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of the outer edge of a shockwave generated in our galaxy by an exploding supernova, and witnessed on earth in the year 1006 AD. The entire diameter of this massive galactic ripple is about 60 light years, and it’s still expanding at a ...
In this clip from Iraqi TV, “astronomy researcher” Fadhel Al-Sa’d says the Sun is half the size of the Earth, and flat. Just like the Earth. And he flatly rejects all heretical innovations that aren’t covered by the Koran. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) What does the Koran say about TV? [Video] Fadhel ...