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The Milky Way rising over Siding Spring Observatory (NSW, Australia) while my amateur telescope observes under a dark sky. Single, 30s exposure, frame using a CANON 5D Mark III with 14mm lens at f2.8, ISO1600, taken the 22nd April 2021at 2:09am local time. Minimum process (curves, luminosity, contrast, saturation and noise reduction) with Photoshop...
A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to...
For millennia, the universe did a pretty good job of keeping its secrets from science.
Ancient Greeks thought the universe was a sphere of fixed stars surrounding smaller spheres carrying planets around the central Earth....
Scientists could one day find traces of life on Enceladus, an ocean-covered moon orbiting Saturn. NASA/JPL-Caltech, CC BY-SA
Fabian Klenner, University of Washington
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft successfully completed its closest solar pass, protected by innovative engineering solutions and showing improvements in onboard instruments. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space...
Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 3344 presents itself face-on, allowing astronomers a detailed look at its intricate and elegant...
During May there are plans for two separate attempts to make contacts from Newfoundland using the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur transponders.
Newfoundland is just outside...
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking galaxy observed only 290 million years after the big bang.Over the last...
Today I have been interviewed in ABC radio about my research and my passion: astrophotography, as well as the increasing problem of light pollution....
Spaceflight doesn't typically come to mind when one thinks of North Carolina's serene, verdant mountains.It's true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the...
The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the Perseus cluster of galaxies.
Led...