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Amazing photo shows 'swarm' of stars

A ball of some of the oldest stars in the universe looks like a swarm of bees in a new view from an observatory in Chile. The photo, released today (May 9), was taken by a European Southern Observatory telescope and shows 100,000 stars cr [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

How to get dazzling astronomy photos with a webcam

In my previous article about astronomical photography, we looked at ways you can simply capture images of the night sky with a camera on a tripod pointing at the sky. Some incredible photographs can be taken using this simple technique an [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Rare Galaxy from 'Dawn of Time' Photographed

An ancient galaxy that formed just after the birth of the universe has been photographed by telescopes on Earth and in space, and is the brightest galaxy ever seen at such remote distances, astronomers say. The blob-shaped galaxy, called [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Astronomy in South Africa: The long shot

The 90-kilometre drive starts in the sheep-ranching town of Carnarvon in western South Africa, and runs northwest through the semi-desert plains of the Karoo, where the only sign of human settlement is an occasional sheep farm. But as the [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Amateur Astronomer Snaps Historic Photo of Another Galaxy

A New Zealand man was Monday being hailed as the first amateur photographer to capture an image of another solar system, after he photographed the star Beta Pictoris using a 10-inch (25cm) telescope at his home in Auckland. Rolf Olse [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Astrophoto: The Great Orion Nebula by Arturo Montesinos

Arturo Montesinos captured this photo of the Great Orion Nebula using 100 30-second exposures shot under computer control with a Nikon D40 camera at the prime focus of a Celestron NexStar 102 SLT 4-inch refractor.

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Star "Eating" Superhot Planet's Atmosphere

First described in 2008, the extrasolar planet or exoplanet WASP-12b is a Jupiter-like world that orbits its host star so tightly a year lasts just 26 hours. This closeness means that a combination of heat from the star and from. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

The Story of an Astrophoto

The photo of the Crab Nebula was taken the night of Jan. 15 by the Faulkes two-meter (78-inch) diameter telescope on top of the Haleakela volcano in Maui, Hawaii. But the 27 amateur astronomers who took it were thousands of miles away, e [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Lost in space - Astronomy photographers capture cosmic mast...

The dramatic rearing horsehead nebula and mysterious glowing Bow of Orion are just two of the unforgettable images that have been entered into the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2009 competition. More than 500 entries from around the w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Solar Flame Photographed

Russian orbital observatory TESIS, located aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite, has photographed more than 10 protuberances, which were over 10 000 km high and burned for about three days on the Sun’s eastern side. Protuberances are [...]

Posted On : May, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Inner workings of photosynthesis revealed by new laser techn...

In a research, a powerful new laser technique has helped to reveal the inner workings of photosynthesis, or how the Sun’s energy moves inside plants, for the very first timeInside a photosynthetic protein. The sun’s energy is e [...]

Posted On : Feb, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Hot, Young Stars and More

In this composite image, Chandra X-Ray Observatory data (blue) is combined with visible-light data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red and green) to reveal a divided neighborhood in the nearby M33 galaxy which houses some 200 huge, hot s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Spacecraft photographs Mars avalanche

A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday. The image, taken last month, reveals at least four avalanches of fine ice and dust brea [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Intergalactic "Shot In The Dark" Shocks Astronomers

When a shot is fired, one expects to see a person with a gun. In the same way whenever a giant star explodes astronomers expect to see a galaxy of stars surrounding the site of the blast. This comes right out of basic astronomy, since almos [...]