Space and astronomy news
One of my favourite astrophotographers, Tom Davis, captured this image of a less photographed region of Cygnus. Capturing the image and processing it turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Colony Worlds reports on an interesting idea of solar balloons, and considers how they’d work on Mars. Celestial Journeys has another cool hand drawn sketch. This …
Today’s astrophoto comes from Galactic2000, and it’s of comet Comet Linear C/2006 VZ13 Unpacking woes continue… but here’s some astrosphere for you. First up, Pamela Gay reports on the chances we’ll hear alien radio transmissions. Then Centauri Dreams discusses red dwarfs and planetary anomalies. Astroblog shows you how to make a stereo anaglyph of the …
Sorry for the bloglessness yesterday, I was running another load of stuff to the new house. Now all our stuff’s together again, we just have to cram a house’s worth of belongings into an apartment. Here’s another astrosphere: Today’s astrophoto is of Jupiter and its 4 easy-to-see moons. It was taken by forum member Bokmakierie. …
Welcome back to the astrosphere. Sorry for the disruption on Friday and over the weekend. As threatened, my family and I moved back to Vancouver, Canada. My wife is going to be attending nursing school here in the big city. We’re still living in boxes, and I’m laptoping the website from atop my actual lap …
Astrosp-here and astro there, astro everywhere. First, the picture. Isn’t that incredible? Today’s astrophoto comes from Filippo Ciferri. He took this and several other pictures from light-polluted Rome if you can believe it. Bad Astronomer Phil Plait debunks a story proposing the Sun came from another galaxy. Centauri Dreams has an article on the work …
Just give you all a warning, I’m going to be moving back to Vancouver, Canada in 2 days, so there might be a few interruptions. I’ll try to keep it to a minimum. Today’s astrophoto comes from Paul F. Campbell. It’s a series of pictures of the Moon stitched together into a mosaic. John Moore …
I’m running out of clever ways to introduce the astrosphere. Uh… here are some links? Today’s photograph comes from Chris Schur, and it contains both the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas. Click this link if you want to see more details, or just a really big version of it. And here are some stories: Daily Galaxy …
I hope everyone out there had a great weekend. Here’s what’s happening out in the astrosphere. Today’s astrophoto is from forum member Perran. It’s a widefield view of nebula IC 1318. Nicely done. Centauri Dreams has an interesting article about plans to build a giant radio telescope on the far side of the Moon. Daily …
Another week, another trip into the astrosphere. First, I’d like to remind those space writers out there that the Carnival of Space is coming up. I’m going to be hosting it again, so get your entries in. Email them to me before Wednesday night.
Welcome back to the astrosphere, here’s what’s happening in space… space… space. Today’s astrophoto from the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forum is from Dave Mitsky. It’s NGC 7635, aka the Bubble Nebula. The Daily Galaxy has a look at Gliese 581c’s big brother. Probably not a great place for life. I covered the double supernova here. …