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Posts tagged ‘Astronomy’

Telescope & Sunset

Waiting For The Sun To Set

October 22nd, 2022
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I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church. Ferdinand Magellan

September 5th, 2022

This beautiful image taken at ESO's Paranal Observatory shows the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Array, set against an incredibly starry backdrop on Cerro Paranal in Chile. The Auxiliary Telescopes are each 1.8 metres in diameter and work with the four 8.2-metre diameter Unit Telescopes to make up the world's most advanced optical observatory. The telescopes work together to form the VLT Interferometer (VLTI), a giant interferometer which allows astronomers to see details up to 25 times finer than would be possible with the individual Unit Telescopes. Hanging over the site are the prominent Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible only in the southern sky. These two irregular dwarf galaxies are in the Local Group and so are companion galaxies to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The image was taken by our Flickr friend John Colosimo who submitted it to the Your ESO Pictures Flickr group.

The Magellanic Clouds

September 5th, 2022
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JWST 001

From the BBC article: What you see is a cluster of galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Volans known by the ungainly name of SMACS 0723. The cluster itself isn’t actually that far away – “only” about 4.6 billion light-years in the distance. But…

So JWST, What Can You Do?

July 12th, 2022
Tent & Stars

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson went on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see…” Watson replied, “I see millions and millions of stars.” “What…

Sherlock Holmes Camping Joke

April 13th, 2022
Newtonian Telescope

Preparing To Gaze

March 20th, 2022
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James Webb Space Telescope: Countdown To Launch

December 24th, 2021

Moon Cloud

In The Mist Of The Moon

October 24th, 2021
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NASA TV: Perseverance Landing Live

February 18th, 2021

Mars-Hope

The UAE Space Agency’s Hope probe has reached Mars, slowed and adjusted it’s trajectory and entered into a wide orbit around the red planet. This is the first image it sent back to Earth, with the solar system’s largest volcano – Olympus Mons – emerging…

Hope For Mars

February 14th, 2021
Milky Way

Heaven’s Above

October 27th, 2020
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ISS & Sun

ISS Transiting Our Star

September 22nd, 2020
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Mars

As I dialled in and focussed the view finder, Mars began to form with increasing clarity in my eye. It’s red and barren landscape giving up stories which detail millions upon millions of years of history. And as I was able to track the red…

Invaders From Mars, Or The International Space Station

September 22nd, 2020
Moon & Mars

Occultation Of Mars By Our Moon

August 12th, 2020
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