Astroimaging involves a profound irony. While the goal of photography is to capture light, the majority of what astrophotographers capture in their images is utter darkness. Oh sure, the intended subject will be a star cluster, nebula, or galaxy. But that doesn’t change the fact that most of a typical […]
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NASA Sets Briefings for Next International Space Station Crew Missions
NASA will host a pair of news conferences Tuesday, July 25, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotations missions to the International Space Station.
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ESO reports good progress building the Extremely Large Telescope
ESO’s aptly named Extremely Large Telescope is now roughly halfway complete, with its dome quickly rising in Chile and the telescope coming together in Europe.
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Now is the best time to see the Summer Milky Way
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Milky Way is at its best in the summer months. During the winter and spring, the parts of the Milky Way that are visible are subdued, sparse affairs, little more than a vague mist of faint stars breathed on the window of the sky, running […]
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Save the galaxy – and a few credits – with these Star Wars board game deals in the Prime Day sale
Bring balance to the force without emptying your bank balance with these Star Wars board game deals including Imperial Assault and Rebellion.
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Webb ‘scientific visualization’ takes viewers back in time at 200 million light years per second
Data from Webb and Hubble combine to take viewers on a video tour from the present all the way back to 390 million years after the Big Bang and a never-before-seen early galaxy.
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Ask Astro: How do we distinguish the north and south poles of planets other than Earth?
How do we distinguish the north pole from the south pole of planets other than Earth? Is it an arbitrary selection, or is there a magnetic field direction we rely on? Gary GeorgeCincinnati, Ohio According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a planet’s north pole with respect to its rotation […]
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Forget Prime Day — the Canon EOS R6 is $300 off at Adorama
Save $300 on this full-frame mirrorless bundle from Canon and get an EOS R6 and an EF-EOS R Ring Mount Adapter to use all your old lenses to shoot the stars.
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SpaceX to push the envelope with record-breaking 16th flight for a Falcon 9 booster
SpaceX will test the limits of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday evening when it launches a booster on a record-breaking 16th flight. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral at 8:36 p.m. EDT (0036 UTC Monday) carrying a batch of second-generation Starlink satellites.
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The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds
A shift in Mars’ climate 400,000 years ago produced a change in wind direction that left its mark in the erosion of bright sand dunes.