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Hot sun amazing photos made with amateur telescope

RedPepper — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:31:39 +0000

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 © sciteh.com. All rights reserved.Hot sun amazing photos made with [...]

Small young galaxy with massive number of stars discovered

RedPepper — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:05:51 +0000

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.

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy completes closed-door test flights

RedPepper — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:24:20 +0000

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA, doesn’t look much like an observatory but like a Boeing 747 airplane. Mounted in the Boeing 747SP fuselage is an infrared telescope nearly 10 feet wide, weighing almost 19 tons. Once flying, it will help study the origin of stars, the evolution of organic materials in space, [...]

A brutal and bizarre universe exposed by the astronomers

RedPepper — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:05:00 +0000

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. It’s an [...]