Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way
800,000 frames from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope used to create an infrared portrait of the inner Milky Way: Source: Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way – NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
800,000 frames from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope used to create an infrared portrait of the inner Milky Way: Source: Spitzer Finds Clarity in the Inner Milky Way – NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
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SuperScholar.org recently listed it’s 20 Most Influential Scientists Alive Today. Anyone missing? Tim Berners-Lee Noam Chomsky Richard Dawkins (pictured above) Persi Diaconis Jane Goodall Alan Guth Stephen Hawking Donald Knuth Lynn Margulis Gordon Moore Roger Penrose Allan Sandage Frederick Sanger Charles Townes Craig Venter James Watson Steven Weinberg Andrew Wiles Edward O. Wilson Edward Witten
Gorgeous Milky Way time lapse shot in South Dakota: Source: Plains Milky Way on Vimeo on Vimeo
Although it’s the most readily visible (aside from the Sun itself) and nearest to us of all celestial bodies, the Moon poses puzzling questions to many people — especially those new to the hobby of skywatching. Here are some of the most often asked ones. Q: Why is the First Quarter Moon as shown on …
Those of you who don’t mind rising early in the morning will have a special treat this month as you look toward the eastern sky before dawn. There you’ll find a grouping of four of the major planets — and a spectacular close approach of the two brightest ones! For a week or so around …
Many books and articles have been written over the years extolling the pleasures of stargazing using binoculars, all based on the premise that “two eyes are better than one.” And indeed they are! Every major class of celestial wonder from the Moon and planets to star clusters, nebulae and galaxies lie within reach of even …
Many skywatchers have never seen the elusive innermost planet Mercury due to its rapid orbital motion and the fact that it never strays far from the Sun. (This includes lots of professional astronomers as well!) March offers a great opportunity to spot it at one of its periodic elongations. During the second half of this …
The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s A telescope. Someone in every town Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one. I would expand upon these wonderful words from Robert Frost’s famous poem The Star-Splitter to say that someone in …
December’s Geminid meteor shower was overshadowed (or you could say “eclipsed!”) as discussed in last month’s installment by a spectacular total eclipse of the Moon. Also, the light of a first-quarter Moon compromised evening viewing on the night of its peak activity until it set around midnight. But there’s another great annual display of shooting …