astronomy

Hey everybody, I know it’s a little late, but I wasn’t really sure how the weather was going to be until a little while ago. I’d like to invite you all to join me in looking at the sky tonight. What’s on the menu:...

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Looking like the clouds are finally going to break tonight. The moon’s quickly heading towards the new moon, and we’ve got Virgo rising. I’m excited to get out and check some targets off my list....

I know we did Fridays last time. The weather was bad, so I kinda forgot about it. The transparency tonight is looking suboptimal, and, given my options, I might just settle for hitting some binary stars. My best view is of the eastern sky, and most everything there right now is faint fuzzies, so I don’t have especially high...

I’m planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I’m not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I’d like to see nebulae and galaxies the most....

I’ve got clear skies where I’m at, and I’m ready to try and cross some things off my observation list....

Does anyone have any experience home brewing a radio telescope? I’d really like to make one myself, both because it seems fun and challenging, and because it would probably be cheaper than buying one of there are any consumer grade radio scopes. I’m aware of some tutorials online, and one concern that I have is that many of...

Hey everyone! I’m putting on stargazing classes in my city with the help of the city parks dept. It involves lugging out 12" dob (we mostly hang out ~120x mag, but I have plans to really juice the magnification if we get small classes and good seeing), some binoculars, and a green laser pointer. I just did the first one last...

The DESI Collaboration (en.wikipedia.org/…/Dark_Energy_Spectroscopic_Inst…) has released results from its first year of observations....

Observations with the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year showed that first generation Starlink satellites emit unintended radio waves that can hinder astronomical observations. New observations with the LOFAR radio telescope, the biggest radio telescope on Earth observing at low frequencies, have shown that...

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Big bang is being refuted by:...

As always with these news it is still too early to draw conclusions: more analysis and tests are necessary....

I was about 30 years old when I talked to my mother about some program on TV about astronomy when she mentioned that our sun is a star. It's like all the other stars we see during the night, it's just closer to us so it appears bigger. My mind was blown. I didn't understand how I could have lived for 30 years and never thought...

bigthink.com/…/when-cosmic-inflation-occurred/

I’m sitting in a dark hotel room on the eve of my first - and possibly only - total solar eclipse, with my partner and step-son, and I am positively awash with emotions....

So I bought 2 sets because it looked like one set was briefly lost in the mail and this past week I got an email from Amazon that said one set I bought were “fakes.”...

This might be interesting to people here. It is an unfinished series of articles that cover each major stage of the big bang era timeline....