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Picture captures a billion stars

TEN years of patience and star-gazing by astronomers has finally culminated in this incredible image showcasing around one billion stars in the Milky Way. It was produced by scientists who combined infra-red light images from two telescop [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers aim to take first picture of black hole

Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that. What they're hoping to glimpse is somethi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Astronomers take picture of exoplanets

By using a small telescope, astronomers took a picture of three small planets orbiting a star outside the solar system.The team at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) snapped the new photo using a small portion of the Palomar Obse [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

The Best of the Best - 15 Years of the Astronomy Picture of ...

Nemiroff and coeditor Jerry Bonnell started APOD on the NASA website in back 1995, partly to provide accurate information about the multitude of astronomical images that were circulating on the Internet, partly just for the fun of sharing [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Picture sparks claims of wood on Mars

The picture, which was taken as part of Nasa's Mars Exploration Rover mission in May 2004, has given excitable internet message board users reason to believe that a civilisation has formed on the planet. Some of the more far-fetched theorie [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Camera takes one-millionth picture

WFCAM was delivered to UKIRT in late 2004 and has been in active operation since Spring 2005. In two years of operation – sharing the telescope equally with other observing modes — WFCAM has taken 30 times the amount of data tak [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

Picture of Earth from Saturn

What's that pale blue dot in this image taken from Saturn? Its Earth. The robotic Cassini spacecraft looked back toward its old home world earlier this month as it orbited Saturn Using Saturn itself to block the bright Sun, Cassini imaged [...]