Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley took these composite images of Uranus on September 19th and October 2nd, showing the dramatic appearance of a bright storm on a planet that normally displays only a diffuse bright polar region. The color is from RGB filters, but the spot appears in infrared. Anthony Wesley Amateur astronomers have confirmed …
NASA’s Stereo A and B spacecraft circle the Sun in orbits very similar to Earth’s. This plot shows their location on November 21, 2014. NASA / JPL Horizons Despite rescue efforts, no one has heard from one of two NASA spacecraft on the far side of the Sun since October 1st. Solar physicists always worry …
“ The RadioAstron telescope’s resolution is so good, it could pick out a snooker ball on the moon” If you thought black holes were strange, try a white one. Katia Moskvitch joins the hunt Thar she blows PHYSICS is full of opposites. For every action, there’s a reaction; every positive charge has …
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An artist’s conception of a gamma-ray burst. European Southern Observatory Astronomers might be on the brink of developing a new rung on the cosmic distance ladder. Astronomy is a discipline pursued at unimaginable distances. And yet actually measuring the distance to a nearby exoplanet, or to a galaxy shining at us from the dark depths …
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen here as it looked 9.6 billion years ago, this monster elliptical galaxy breaks the previous record-holder by 200 million years. These “lensing” galaxies are so massive that their gravity bends, magnifies, and distorts light …
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