Anyone visiting the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro at the weekend could have been forgiven for thinking they had either entered a different galaxy or they had somehow wandered into the middle of a film set. To celebrate the launch of an exciting new exhibition on loan from the V & A Museum of Childh...
Monstrous Black Hole Blast in the Core of a Galaxy Cluster
This is a composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardus.
Position(2000): RA 07h 41m 50.20s | Dec +74° 14' 51.00"
The image r...
Entries are now being welcomed for the 4th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. The competition seeks to find the best solution to an interplanetary trajectory problem. It has proved a unique playground for researchers to test new ideas and to compare methods. Space travel can often be a...
The 160 - 350 metre wide asteroid 2008 YE30 will make a close pass (43.2 Lunar Distances, 0.1111 AU) to the Earth-Moon system on 28th January 2009. See more
A series of lectures on upcoming scientific discoveries that could change the way we look at the universe - and ourselves - begins Tuesday at the University of Arizona. "Next: Science That Transforms" presented by the UA College of Science will feature talks by six scientists with proje...
Majdanak: night lifeClick to Play | View Details Telescope-robot is set at the Maydanak observatory located 120 km southward of Samarkand at a height of 2700 m above-see level in picturesque spurs of Altai mountain ridge. By number of clear days this area is second to none of the best world observato...
Among the historical monuments of Samarkand, the observatory has a particular place; constructed by Ulugbek in 1428-1429 high on one of the hills, at the foot of Chupanat. As Baburs describe, who saw the observatory, it was three-storied, covered with beautiful glazed titles, building of roun...
In 1947, a World War II fighter pilot named Don Penning started a small shop that made money selling hobby cameras to Camp Pendleton Marines. Over the years, the shop changed hands and locations and grew. Oceanside Photo and Telescope, better known as OPT, now has annual revenue in the tens of millio...
If you are looking for a quality scope to use for your stargazing activities, you might want to consider Orion telescopes. Produced and manufactured by the Orion Telescope company, it is a type of refractor that utilizes curved lenses meant to reflect any image. [url=http://telescope-for-u.blo...
Google Mercury- New NASA Images Click to Play | View Details New false-colour pictures of the heavily-cratered surface of Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft. Messenger aims to map the entire surface of Mercury over the next decade.
An asteroid, 9B3FEF1 (NEOCP designation), discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, has been found to be cometary. T. Kryachko and S. Korotkiy at the Kazan State University report that images taken on the 21st January, 2009, show a faint tail and a small coma 9" in diameter . Ephemeris: [pre...
Reaching 12,633, Mount Humphreys gains less than half the altitude of the worlds highest peaks, but it offers a compelling story on the long, complex relationship between human beings and mountains with its most recent outpouring in 1064-65, which had a dramatic effect on existing civilisations...
A magnitude 8.6 nova was discovered in the constellation Musca by W. Liller (Chile), on the 28th September, 2008. Position(2000): RA = 13 16 36.44, Dec = -67 36 47.8 IAUC 8990 (Subscription)
An intense storm system is currently barrelling toward the Bay of Biscay, with a 50+ knot low-level jet pumping moisture northward ahead of a surging cold front. This same LLJ will also create extreme low-level shear, especially where oriented in the appropriate direction for the expected easte...
The 110 - 240 metre wide asteroid 2008 CG will make a close pass (71.2 Lunar Distances, 0.1831 AU) of the Earth-Moon system on 24th January 2009. Source
