Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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When a planet passes in front of a star, the starlight passes through the planet's atmosphere. Lines in the resulting spectrum occur where different elements absorb light at characteristic energies, indicating the composition of the planet's atmosphere.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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The chance for a spooky Halloween comet sighting will not happen. The comet known as C/2024 S1 didn’t survive it’s rendezvous with the sun, as it broke apart at parahelion.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
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For those in the Northern hemisphere, the next weeks are our best chance to see Comet A3, which came from the Oort Cloud, and won’t be back for 80,000 years
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
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The constellations Carina, Vela, and Puppis make up Argo Navis, the mythical ship. Argo Navis was one of the 48 constellations listed in the Almagest.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
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A 13 year survey conducted by the VISTA telescope has created the most detailed map of the Milky Way ever. It contains an incredible 1.5 billion objects
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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The observable universe is the spherical region around Earth from which light has had time to reach us since the universe began. The boundary is called the cosmic light horizon.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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Researchers have found evidence suggesting the Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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The far-southern constellation Tucana is to be found at the end of the celestial river, Eridanus. It represents the large-beaked tropical bird that is native to South and Central America.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
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Astronomers discovered a new “Odd Radio Circle” (a mysterious ring invisible at all wavelengths except radio) near the center of our galaxy. I hope it’s playing space rock.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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In 1610, Galileo's telescope revealed that the milky smear across the night sky is not a nebula but a field of tiny stars. Immanuel Kent guessed that the stars form a rotating disk and that the Earth is inside it.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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In 1977 on August 20th, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched to visit the outer planets. In Dec. 2018 it passed Neptune and entered interstellar space. Voyager 2 is still transmitting data 47 years later!
