In August, the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the Perseid meteor shower, a partial lunar eclipse and more will be visible.
“Tonight’s Sky” is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes—and other astronomy videos—at http://hubblesite.org/videos/science… Read the rest of this article
The Nexstar Evolution is a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope that has built-in WiFi. That means that it’s possible to control the motorized mount fully through your smartphone or tablet.
The hand-controller is gone – The telescope has an integrated wireless network which you can connect your mobile device to and navigate the night sky there.
There’s also an app, for both iOS … Read the rest of this article
Irish amateur astronomer Dave Grennan has done it again, discovering his third supernova from his back garden in Raheny, Dublin.
The the new ‘Type 1c’ supernova was spotted nearly two weeks ago. Its existence was only confirmed yesterday (April 27, 2014) by a team of professional astronomers in China and the discovery announced by the International Astronomical Union.
It has … Read the rest of this article
While working to correct an extreme case of myopia (otherwise known as short-sightedness), Dutch optician Hans Lippershey stumbled upon the fact that a particular arrangement of lenses seemed to magnify distant objects.
This was the birth of the modern telescope.
Lippershey’s first telescope, or ‘dutch perspective glass’ as it was first known, came with a whopping magnification of 3x! Galileo … Read the rest of this article
Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, 526 people shattered the record for the Largest Astronomy Lesson. Under the Texas night sky, students were instructed on the lawn of the Long Center for the Performing Arts at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin on Sunday, March 10, 2013.
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Lesson leaders Dr. Frank Summers and education …
Do you want to contribute to the study of the cosmos, but don’t have an astronomy degree or even a telescope? Well, here’s a solution for you. Use your free time and your computer to analyze real data from Hubble and other space telescopes. Visit HubbleSite’s new citizen science portal to find active astronomy projects that you can get involved … Read the rest of this article
NASA has recently discovered a very strange planet. Its days are twice as long as its years. It has a tail like a comet. It is hot enough to melt lead, yet capped by deposits of ice. And to top it all off … it appears to be pink.
The planet is Mercury.
Of course, astronomers have known about Mercury … Read the rest of this article
The European Space Agency wanted to know the level of knowledge about the number of planets in our Solar System so they asked people around Europe. It’s not very encouraging…
This report comes in from Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA):
Reports are still coming in from all over Ireland about the amazing multiple fireball which travelled over the UK & Ireland on 21 September. The object first became visible over Holland, travelled across the North Sea, across England, across the Irish Sea, and then right across Ireland!…Read the rest of this article
Every time NASA lands a rover on Mars – or even makes the attempt – it is cause for celebration. On August 5th, the heavens themselves are aligning to mark the event.
Only a few hours before the Mars Science Lab spacecraft reaches the red planet and drops Curiosity on a hair-raising descent mission planners have dubbed the “seven minutes … Read the rest of this article
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