Posts in the past four weeks
Thursday
May 23 2013
07:10 UTC
... caught myself staring at this image of the 2009 total solar eclipse that was skillfully put together by miloslav druckmuller and crew. to create the image, they stacked 38 individual images together and captured the fine structure of the sun's white corona, a far-reaching layer of the sun that we rarely get the chance to study because it is hugely out-shined by the blinding photosphere - except during a total eclipse. it amazes me just how far out the corona reaches - at least three time
Posted by astropixie
Wednesday
May 22 2013
15:11 UTC
The International Space Station may soon have its very own Star Trek food replicator. Earlier this week, NASA awarded a $125,000 six month grant to the Systems & Materials Research Cooperation to design a 3D printer capable of printing a pizza from 30-year shelf stable foodstuffs. (...)Read the rest of NASA Looks at 3-D Food
Posted by Universe Today
Tuesday
May 21 2013
15:02 UTC
As the first eclipse season of 2013Âcomes to an end this weekend, an extremely subtle lunar eclipseÂoccurs on the night of Friday, May 24th going into the morning of Saturday, May 25th. And we do mean subtle, as in invisible to the naked eye this eclipse only lasts 34 minutes in duration and less than
Posted by Universe Today
Tuesday
May 21 2013
04:18 UTC
The evening sky facing north-east in Darwin on May 22 at 19:00 pm ACST showing the waxing Moon just about to cover Spica (alpha Virginis). (similar views will be seen from other locations north of Bundaberg at a similar local time eg 20:05 AEST Cairns). The inset shows a telescopic view of the Moon at 19:00 ACST, with Spica about to go behind the Moon. The waxing Moon passes in front of the bright star Spica in the constellation of Virgo on the evening of May 22. Spica is a bright white st
Posted by Astroblog
Friday
May 17 2013
20:45 UTC
... impact seen on the moon in the eight year history of the monitoring program.…
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Friday
May 17 2013
15:42 UTC
If you were looking up at the Moon on March 17, 2013 at 03:50:55 UTC, you might have seen one of the brightest lunar flashes ever witnessed. And it would have been visible with just the naked eye. (...)Read the rest of Super-Bright Explosion Seen on the Moon (669 words) Â nancy for Universe Today,
Posted by Universe Today
Thursday
May 16 2013
01:07 UTC
... the smushed sun (and moon) occurs because the light passing through so much of earth's atmosphere gets bent upwards. Ring of Fire - May 10 2013 Annular Solar Eclipse, Pilbara, Western Australia from Colin Legg on Vimeo. the video is created from images taken by geof
Posted by astropixie
Monday
May 13 2013
17:45 UTC
... planets huddle, and the moon joins the Leo constellation in this week's best sky events.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Monday
May 13 2013
00:26 UTC
This very creative self-portrait by astrophotographer Miguel Claro shows what appears to be the photographer taking a ‘macro' closeup of the crescent Moon! But there is a lot more going on in this image. The crescent Moon has just 3% of the disc illuminated by the Sun, but there is a stunningly bright Earthshine effect
Posted by Universe Today
Friday
May 10 2013
23:18 UTC
During the month of May, three planets are going to move into a very close alignment, and the set up begins this week with the Moon adding some color to the scene for a few days. The two fast-moving inner planets, Mercury and Venus, are going to be coming into view in the west shortly after sunset, joining the massive Jupiter as it slowly fades out of view into the twilight. The dynamics of these changes is not easy to explain in a short blog post, but because of the fact that inner and outer pl
Posted by The Urban Astronomer
Friday
May 10 2013
14:30 UTC
... spectacular annular eclipse of the Sun was witnessed across Australia and the southern Pacific region early today. Morning dawned mostly clear across the Australian continent, and those who journeyed out to meet the antumbra of the Moon as the Sun rose across the Great Sandy Desert and the Cape YorkÂPeninsula were not disappointed. The
Posted by Universe Today
Friday
May 10 2013
02:56 UTC
... partially blocked by the moon, and i went on live TV to talk about the event to ABC reporters! live on the news, talking about the solar eclipse! (photo credit: henry lee)big thanks to henry lee for putting together the above image, which includes a screen shot of the ABC news program and a pinhole camera shot of the partial eclipse in progre
Posted by astropixie
Wednesday
May 08 2013
19:21 UTC
Has Venus finally come out of hiding? For the past couple months it's kept close to the sun, hidden in its glare, but come Friday, sky watchers in mid-northern latitudes may get their first shot at seeing the planet's return to the evening sky. (...)Read the rest of Venus Comes Out of Hiding! How to
Posted by Universe Today
Wednesday
May 08 2013
04:04 UTC
... sun around the full moon, preventing the sky from going that ghostly dark that it does during a total solar eclipse, unfortunately. (see eclipse video here)credit: forrest tanakathe maximum eclipse will be visible across far north austr
Posted by astropixie
Tuesday
May 07 2013
16:35 UTC
Buzz Aldrin, celebrated Apollo astronaut and an outspoken champion for the pursuit of space exploration has written a new book titled Mission to Mars. While the title focuses on Mars, the book covers much more. Aldrin says that while Mars is the destination, getting there is a journey that includes taking advantage of the efforts
Posted by Universe Today
Monday
May 06 2013
18:45 UTC
The first solar eclipse of 2013 is upon us this week, with the May 10th annular eclipse crossing northern Australia and the Pacific.(...)Read the rest of How to Catch This Week's ‘Ring of Fire' Annular Eclipse (1,310 words) Â David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: annular eclipse,
Posted by Universe Today
Monday
May 06 2013
17:32 UTC
Straggler meteors, a solar eclipse, and the return of Venus are among the best sky events to watch this week.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Thursday
May 02 2013
14:00 UTC
AVAST gentle reader: mild SPOILER(S) and graphic depictions of shattered satellites ahead! We recently had a chance to catch Oblivion, the first summer blockbuster of the season. The flick delivers on the fast-paced Sci-Fi action as Tom Cruise saves the planet from an invasion of Tom Cruise clones. But the movie does pose an interesting
Posted by Universe Today
Thursday
May 02 2013
11:04 UTC
If you find yourself in the great outdoors any evening during May and it's a cloudless night, turning your eyes towards the heavens could be an unusually interesting way for...
Posted by Astronotes
Monday
Apr 29 2013
14:08 UTC
Correspondent Kurt Ams sends in this beautiful image of Alpha1 (Zubenelgenubi) and Alpha2 Librae just after they reappeared from the dark limb of the Moon. The image was taken in Sydeny at 21:15, April 26. Click to embiggen ((c) Kurt Ams, remember to play nice and ask permission if you want to use this image)
Posted by Astroblog
Saturday
Apr 27 2013
02:24 UTC
lovely shots found at danor. st.
Posted by astropixie
Friday
Apr 26 2013
18:33 UTC
... DaphnisÂ(my favorite moon) and an artist's interpretation of what it might look like to see it whiz past as it travels around Saturn inside the Keeler Gap, sending up waves in the rings as it goes! The image is by Erik Svensson, who came across my recent
Posted by Lights in the Dark
Friday
Apr 26 2013
14:31 UTC
Alpha Librae (Zubenelgenubi) at 7:26 pm ACST, just before the serious clouds rolled in. Image taken with a Canon IXUS at 400 ASA, auto exposure timing , and infinity to infinity focussing thorough a 4" Newtonian and 25 mm eyepiece. Emergence of Zubenelgenubi at 8:32 (well, it had emerged earlier, but this was my first image). You may need to embiggen the picture to see the faint blob near the bottom. A clearer image of Zubenelgenubi as it pulls away from the Moon. A slightly over exposed image show
Posted by Astroblog
