... 3.7 and appearing nearly as large as the full moon on the southern night sky, Omega Centauri is visible with the unaided eye from a clear, dark observing site. Even through a ...
Corvus is probably the most striking star pattern in spring's southern sky.
Eta Carinae, a bright, variable star in the southern sky that is the most luminous known star in the Milky Way Galaxy, underwent a major eruption 145 years ago that may be the first example of a new ...
... evening twilight to leave Saturn as our
only bright planet for much of the night. The ringed world falls
from our mid-southern sky to the WSW by our map times. Meanwhile,
Arcturus replaces ...
... dying star, a white dwarf identified as WDJ1524-0030, located in the constellation Ophiuchus in the southern sky, is losing its brightness as it cools, its nuclear fuel spent. It will be monitored ...
ESO's Very Large Telescope - Europe's flagship facility for ground-based astronomy - has been equipped with the first of its second generation instruments: X-shooter. It can record the entire ...
... on the 21st, taking its highest arc across our southern
sky during the day and its shallowest dip ... during the night. As a consequence, twilight washes the sky
throughout the night, becoming so severe ...
ESO's Very Large Telescope has been equipped with the first of its second generation instruments: X-shooter. It can record the entire spectrum of a celestial object in one shot -- from the ...
The Great Melbourne Telescope emerges from the ashes of the 2003 Mt Stromlo bushfires- in the updated form of the Skymapper Telescope.
... spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross in the constellation of Crux. The Kappa ... wide field view generated from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 data. This image also includes ...
... galaxy, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. One of the most studied objects in the southern sky, by 1847 the unique appearance of this galaxy had already caught the attention of the famous ...
