Kepler Finds “Extraordinary” Extrasolar System NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System excerpt: Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently..
NEOWISE Completes Survey NASA’S Neowise Completes Scan For Asteroids And Comets Finding 20 new comets and 33,000 new asteroids in our Solar System with 134 new NEOs. See..
Most Distant Galaxy Spied NASA’s Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe. Hubble has spied what is most likely the most distant object we have ever..
Antimatter making Thunderstorms It seems NASA has discovered that Antimatter can be ejected into space by thunderstorms on our very own planet. The team at the Fermi Gamma-ray..
Ginourmous CME Detected Reports are flowing in all around about an enourmous M class mass ejection on the Sun’s Easter Limb. See NASA’s image to the right. This huge..
Cassini Still Going Strong Cassini’s still at it. It’s only a few months (well 6 or so) since they observed the gravitational wake of Prometheus causing giant (up to 20KM)..
Gold from Space There’s been a long-standing theory that many of the Earth’s precious metals are not native to our planet but came instead from foreign bodies..
Building a Dobsonian Everyone gets hit with “aperture fever” at some stage and I’m no different. I had two 8 inch scopes (Newt & SCT) at different stages but found..
IC 434 – The Horshead Nebula I was surprised to get this shot. I’ve tried to obtain it a few times using a Sac10 but never had any luck. The QHY 6 is WAY more sensitive though..
M42 and NGC 19777 – Orion and the Running Man Finally! This is a composition I tried to capture on a few occasions with my Sac10 CCD imager. Never had much luck because the SAC was not very..