Time-lapse video of Capella rising at 11:00 PM EDT through 1:45 AM EDT Capella is the 3rd brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere. What would happen if we replaced the sun with it? We explore that question in our full-featured video below. This isn’t just some hypothetical exercise; it helps us better understand[…]
The August 2024 Full Sturgeon Moon is low in the southeast in this view due south at 9:30 PM, EDT, 2 hours after its rising, Monday, August 19th. The teapot of Sagittarius is on the meridian, with Scorpio and its heart, the red supergiant Antares, to the west. I gazed at the full moon, hanging[…]
Update (11 August, 2024) Some additional funding has been secured, enough to keep the observatory operational at a reduced level with a reduced staff. We just published an article describing the 25th anniversary celebration of NASA’s Chandra Orbiting X-Ray Observatory, the Supernova remnant SN1987a and a study using current Chandra data. But, guess what? Chandra[…]
Great Observatories Program Back in 2009, NASA released the following image of Messier-101 to celebrate the Great Observatories Program and to commemorate the International Year of Astronomy, 2009. From left to right, the Grand Design Spiral can be seen in Infrared light from the Spitzer Space telescope (the IR Predecessor to JWST), visible light from[…]
The Sun in the Extreme Ultraviolet Strong Rise in Solar Activity With the magnitude and frequency of solar flares increasing along with the accompanying Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), the Sun continues its strong rise towards next summer’s probable record-setting Solar Maximum. After May’s series of powerful flares and CMEs, the latest outburst occurred on July[…]
