by rmil2k | Dec 6, 2023 | News
Famous Halley’s Comet reaches a distant milestone this coming weekend. It’s lonely out there in the frozen outer solar system. On Saturday, December 9th, that most famous of all comets 1P/Halley reaches a hallmark point on its 75-year journey through the solar system,...
by rmil2k | Dec 6, 2023 | News
ESA’s Young Professionals Satellite, YPSat, has been fully integrated for the first time, in preparation for its ‘electromagnetic compatibility’ testing seen here. This checks that all the systems aboard the compact payload can operate together without interfering...
by rmil2k | Dec 6, 2023 | News
Scientists have discovered gravitational waves stemming from a black hole merger event that suggest the resultant black hole settled into a stable, spherical shape. These waves also reveal the combo black hole may be much larger than previously thought. When initially...
by rmil2k | Dec 6, 2023 | News
Located near the bright star Rigel, IC 2118 is a faint reflection nebula spanning almost 70 light-years and is popularly known as the Witch Head Nebula. Mukherjee used Telescope Live to acquire 12 hours of data from Australia with a Takahashi FSQ106ED, FLI PL16083,...
by rmil2k | Dec 5, 2023 | News
Scientists love outliers. Outliers are nature’s way of telling us what its boundaries are and where its limits lie. Rather than being upset when an outlier disrupts their understanding, scientists feed on the curiosity that outliers inspire. It’s true in the case of a...
