Observatories
A New Look at the Horsehead Nebula for Hubble’s 23rd Anniversary
Here’s the iconic Horsehead Nebula as we’ve not seen it before. As the Hubble team so poetically puts it, the…
Bright Blazar’s Emission Defies Explanations
When it comes to sheer wattage, blazars definitely rule. As the brightest of active galactic nuclei, these sources of extreme…
First-Ever High Resolution Radio Images of Supernova 1987A
On February 23, 1987, the brightest extragalactic supernova in history was seen from Earth. Now 26 years later, astronomers have…
Night Sky Preview for April 2013
Here's a quick overview from Jane Houston Jones from JPL of what you can see in the night skies during…
A Radio Astronomer’s Paradise
Last month a dozen journalists from around North America were guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and got to…
Extreme Telescopes: Unique Observatories Around the World
In 1888, astronomer Simon Newcomb uttered now infamous words, stating that “We are probably nearing the limit of all we…
ALMA: The View from a Different World
A new film called The View From Mars takes a look ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array), the huge international telescope…
ALMA Now a Full-Fledged Observatory
Today, in a remote part of the Chilean Andes, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), was inaugurated at an official…
12 Star Party Secret Weapons
We’ve all been there. Well OK, all public star party telescope operators have been there. You’re set up and you've got a stunning…
Greek Observatory Probes Ancient Star
Some 2,500 years ago, a Greek astronomer named Aristarchus certainly made some very correct assumptions when he postulated the Sun…