by Jonathan Nally | Sep 16, 2019 | Astronomy, Galaxies, News
Above: This new view of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was made using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VISTA telescope. The LMC can be glimpsed with the naked eye by observers in the Southern Hemisphere. Credit: ESO/VMC Survey A favourite of Southern...
by Jonathan Nally | Sep 13, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Features, News
Above: Andy Casely’s sequence of Mars images, ‘Death of Opportunity’. Two Australian astrophotographers have been announced as winners, runners up or highly commended in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s title of Insight Investment Astronomy...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 25, 2019 | Amateur astronomy, Astronomy, Uncategorised
Pictured: Dylan O’Donnell with his Celestron set-up. In Australian Sky & Telescope magazine we regularly profile some of the leading amateur astronomers and astrophotographers from all across Australasia. Here’s our profile of Dylan O’Donnell, who has rapidly made...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 24, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Scientists say they have, for the first time, likely detected a black hole devouring a neutron star. The detection was made on August 14, 2019, using gravitational-wave observatories in the United States and Italy. The observatories’ detectors picked up the...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 16, 2019 | Astronomy
US-based scientists have detailed the death throes of an unusual star 200 times the mass of the Sun, in a galaxy one billion light-years from Earth. The unusual supernova is challenging what scientists think they know about supernova explosions, and gives clues to...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 13, 2019 | Astronomy, Planets
The image above shows amazing detail and colour in Jupiter’s cloud bands, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet’s famous Great Red Spot (GRS) — about twice the diameter of Earth — is prominent. The giant anticyclone is nestled between two bands of...
