This Digitized Sky Survey image shows the oldest star with a well-determined age in our galaxy. Called the Methuselah star, HD 140283 is 190.1 light-years away. Astronomers refined the star’s age to about 14.5 billion years. Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO by Mike Wall, Space.com The oldest known star appears to be …
A rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope, one of three “extremely large telescope” facilities slated for completion within a decade that will be large enough to resolve the universe’s first objects. Illustration: GMTO Corporation From the properties of dark matter to how the universe took shape shortly after the Big Bang, some of the universe’s …
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Something unexpected is happening on the Sun. 2013 was supposed to be the year of “solar maximum,” the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. Yet 2013 has arrived and solar activity is relatively low. Sunspot numbers are well below their values from 2011, and strong solar flares have been infrequent. The image above shows the …
Club member and astrophotography buff Johan Retief took this stunning image and mailed it to us with the following details:- “Tonight’s attempt turned into a bit of a lemon! The attached photo taken with camera in piggy-back, 200mm lens, F5.6, ISO 1600, 20 x 20 sec light frames and 10 x dark frames. Field of …
February 15 2013 at 01:34pm By Natalia Shurmina and Andrey Kuzmin REUTERS Chelyabinsk – More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, shattering windows and damaging buildings. People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an …
