In 2014 it will be over twenty years since the first discussions of the SKA and the ambitious call for a radio telescope with a considerable increase in sensitivity (two orders of magnitude) over existing instruments. It will also be ten years since the publication of the rationale for the SKA in ‘Science with …
Transformational Science with the SKA – symposium Stellenbosch Feb 2014 Read More »
J1532 X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford/J.Hlavacek-Larrondo et al, Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/M.Postman & CLASH team One of the most powerful things in the universe wears a sparkly purple coat. Well, at least it looks that way in this image combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. This is an image of the galaxy cluster RX …
Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, getting fainter and fainter, in this time-lapse image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The image of the sun at the center is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. ESA/NASA/SOHO/SDO/GSFC From our January newsletter, By Dr Jenny Morris 2 December: …
This plot shows the range of possible locations where the small asteroid 2014 AA struck Earth’s atmosphere early on January 2, 2014. Bill Gray / Project Pluto Discovered on New Year’s Eve by a telescope in Arizona, a small asteroid struck Earth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean — apparently unnoticed — about 25 hours …
Greetings All Jupiter is in opposition on Sunday 5 January at 23h00 says my new copy of SGAS. It is then a mere 630 million kms from us. I have attached a distillation of the best Jupiter Events to observe during the month. For shadow transits, Io, is the closest moon to the planet and …
