This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows three baby stars in the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy. The three stars are the first to be discovered in the region — previous attempts to find them were unsuccessful because there is so much dust standing between us and our galaxy’s core. Spitzer …
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Members making their Southern Star Wheels under Auke’s tutelage Report back from Auke Slotegraaf – extracted from his website From September 24 to 26 I visited the Hermanus Centre of the ASSA to give a talk at their monthly meeting and to present two workshops. This vibrant Centre is driven by a number of enthusiastic …
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(PhysOrg.com) — The Chandler Wobble is a small variation in the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It has been known for some time that the phase of the Chandler Wobble jumped by 180 degrees in the 1920s, but a new study by scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences has found that …
Two More Earth’s Chandler Wobble Jumps Revealed, Last in 2005 Read More »
On August 11th this year the planet Saturn will be at its equinox with the Sun and it will remain like this for up to a year. Because of the enormous shadows of the planet falling across the ring system and particularly as they will fall on Saturn’s moons, the Cassini spacecraft, which has …
Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of 1,6 million km/h, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way. The fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which …
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