Celestron NexStar Evolution 8: the smartest telescope
The Celestron NexStar Evolution 8 telescope makes skywatching much easier: it has built in Wi-Fi, which takes a lot of the work out of astronomy. Which is good. But also not so good...
Tag Archives: astronomy and astrophysics
Take telescope photos with you phone using this simple rig
This simple rig helps you take telescope photos with a phone...
Record-breaking radio waves from ultra-cool star
Astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected....
Radio telescopes capture best-ever snapshot of black hole jets
An international team, including Nasa-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy....
That pesky dust is actually useful
Astronomers find cosmic dust annoying when it blocks their view of the heavens, but without it, the Universe would be devoid of stars. Cosmic dust is the indispensable ingredient for making stars and for understanding how primordial diffuse gas clouds assemble themselves into full-blown galaxies....
Newly discovered planet may be first truly habitable exoplanet
A team of planet hunters has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone", where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. If confirmed, this would be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a potentially habitable one....
Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds space observatory
A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighbourhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on Nasa's Swift space observatory earlier this year, astronomers now report....
