by Jonathan Nally | Nov 21, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Above: The afterglow of GRB 190114C and its home galaxy were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on February 11 and March 12, 2019. The gamma ray burst (centre of the green circle) was located about 800 light-years from the galaxy’s core. Credit: NASA, ESA, and V....
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 24, 2019 | Astronomy, Comets, Cosmology, News
Above: On October 12, 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet 2I/Borisov at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA) The Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best view yet of an...
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 23, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: A simulation of galaxies in the early Universe, as generated by the Summit supercomputer. Courtesy ASTRO 3D. Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and Shanghai...
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...
