Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

From The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Visit our Monthly Sky Highlights and Moon Phase Calendars page for more information.
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This finding is a new step toward filling the gap between stars and planets.
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HiRISE captured one of Mars’ moons on March 23.
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The space telescope captured a dazzling view of Omega Centauri.
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Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray telescope have imaged a baby star with the firsts ever X-ray jets coming from a young star, the image on the left is from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. By baby star we are talking about a star …
Original post by Tom

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the astronomical telescope, the IYA will feature hands-on workshops and a three-day symposium to help educators, scientists, and anyone working in astronomy and space science outreach to prepare [. …
Original post by osgc

But still, their discovery was a huge advance in astronomy! Who could have thought planets could either survive, or form after, something as devastating and titanic as the explosion of an entire star? It rocked astronomy when they were …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

I have vista on my machine and I am trying to install a printer on my machine but it is an older printer, a canon bjc 210, and the driver is not digital signed so vista is not allowing me to install the driver even though it is from the …
Original post by davidlpf

Spitzer picture of globular cluster Omega Centauri. Spitzer Space Telescope caught this image of the cluster Omega Centauri, which I recently wrote about. Whether Omega Cen is a galaxy or a globular cluster doesn’t change the fact that …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

So next week I fly to Jolly Old to begin an adventure which includes going down to the bowels of the Earth and poking around the Large Hadron Collider. No hadrons will be harmed during this trip, but I will be making videos with the …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer