[ad_1] American photographer Brad Goldpaint has defeated thousands of amateur and professional photographers from around the world to win the 2018 photographer's title of the Insight Investment Astronomy magazine of the Royal …
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[ad_1] Greg Bishop wrote on October 24, 2018: “As the Hunter’s Moon first came into view, I walked down my street looking for interesting views. I saw many pumpkins out in expectation …
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[ad_1] "Carry the soul"Brad Goldpaint By Timothy Revell Brad Goldpaint took this beautiful image of a passionate astrophotographer from Moab, Utah. The photo shows the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way and the …
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[ad_1] Credit: ESA / CNES / Arianespace – Photo Optical Video of the CSG – JM Guillon A powerful European rocket Ariane 5 took off last Friday from French Guiana and propelled …
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[ad_1] The Oklahoma City Astronomy Club will hold a free public session on the moon on Saturday to celebrate the Observe the Moon International Night. Club members will have telescopes and other …
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[ad_1] This is great news: the working group of the International Astronomical Union on the nomenclature of planetary systems – the group of astronomers responsible for giving official names to astronomical objects …
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[ad_1] Lithium detection in debris left as a result of an apparent nova observed in 1670 indicates a collision between a compact white dwarf and a failing star known as a brown …
Read More »Bad astronomy | Another robot lands on Ryugu
[ad_1] Welcome to Ryugu: an asteroid entirely populated by robots. On October 3, the Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) spacecraft spacecraft Hayabusa-2 was positioned just 51 meters from the surface of the small …
Read More »Astronomers detect the highly energetic radiation of Microquasar | Astronomy
[ad_1] Astronomers have detected gamma rays from the outermost regions of an unusual star system in our Milky Way. The source is a microquasar – a black hole that engulfs objects from …
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