Bad news I’m afraid for the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has been placed in safe mode as two of it’s critical gyros used for pointing have failed.
While imaging the Andromeda Galaxy, the Spitzer Space Telescope uncoverd a never-before-seen hole, the result of a collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy, in the Andromeda Galaxy.
NASA just launched the Parker Solar Probe, a mission designed to get the closest we’ve ever been to the Sun.
Why go through all the trouble and expense of buying and learning to use your own imaging equipment when you have access to ACTUAL Space Telescope data?
Time to talk about backyard observatories. Why? Observatories let you keep your telescope setup and aligned all the time
This week, we re-visit processing data from NASA missions yourself.
So you’ve spent the money, installed the equipment, hit the ‘Take Image’ button and you have a computer full of images. Now what?
So, you want to take images with your telescope? Listen to this podcast and we’ll tell you what you need to get started!
Looking to buy your first telescope? Looking to get started in amateur astronomy but are confused about the telescope to start off with? Here’s the answer.
As we approach the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere, we talk about some of the best things you can see all year!