Astrophotography

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Live Stream: Annual Perseid Meteor Showers Light Up The Skies Etidbits.com The Perseid meteor shower, which is considered by many astrologists to be the most well-known meteor showers, peaked Friday night and into the early Saturday morning. A live stream, which can be viewed below, was put together by NASA through UStream.tv ... Recommended: Make the most of the meteors msnbc.com Perseid Meteor Shower: Shooting Stars After Midnight ABC News The Best Time To...Read Full Story

Yes, this Tuesday (010808) a SOLAR ECLIPSE is swinging it's way upon us. The path of totality will commence in Arctic Canada and travel across Greenland, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and conclude in China. Totality will be witnessed by many fortunate indigenous people living in it's shadow and many, many travellers from around the globe, who are placing their ambitions in the oh~so random cosmos. Luckily for us Northern Europeans, a partial eclipse of the Sun will be visible, weather permitting...Read Full Story

AFP Herschel Uncovers Elusive Oxygen Molecule Hidden in Orion Nebula International Business Times The European Space Agency's Herschel telescope found the first evidence of molecular oxygen in Orion Nebula, ending a 230-year mystery as to whether the molecule certainly existed in space. The molecules were detected in the star-forming region of the ... European telescope detects oxygen in space AFP Hidden Oxygen Found in Space Christian Post Oxygen finally spotted in space BBC News TG Daily...Read Full Story

An international team of astronomers using new Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona has found that the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy, a recently discovered tiny companion to our Milky Way at a distance of 430,000 light years, has truly unusual properties. While basically all of its known peers in the realm of these dwarf galaxies are rather round, this galaxy appears highly flattened, either the shape of a disk or of a cigar. The stars in many large galaxies are arranged in a disk-like...Read Full Story

We've known for a while that large astronomical events can spell bad news for life:  supernovae unleash unimaginable levels radiation, asteroids can kick up climate-killing clouds, and black holes can suck things out of existence altogether.  Now it seems that simply wandering too close to big star can evaporate a planet before it even forms. University of Arizona astronomers have surveyed a thousand stars in the Rosette Nebula - that might sound like a song lyric, but we assure you it's real...Read Full Story