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The astrophotographer Alan Friedman captured this shot at a star party in the Florida Keys last week, using a relatively little amateur telescope. On his website has an entire photo album of space snapshots and more hot sun photos like this one. Image: Alan Friedman
Posted in Science on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
While these galaxies are small enough to fit within the central hub of our own Milky Way Galaxy, they each contain as many stars as bigger, older galaxies.
Posted in Science on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA, doesn’t look much like an observatory but like a Boeing 747 airplane.
Posted in Science on Jan 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The deeper astronomers look into the cosmos, the more they discover it’s a bizarre and violent universe. The explore result from this week’s annual meeting of U.S. astronomers vary from blue orphaned baby stars to threatening “rogue” black holes that travel our galaxy, devouring any planets doomed to be within their limited reach.