A Book About Neutron Stars
Neutron Stars by Katia Moskvitch is the brilliant story of our understanding of neutron stars, not just a book about neutron stars.
Neutron Stars by Katia Moskvitch is the brilliant story of our understanding of neutron stars, not just a book about neutron stars.
Travel 2.4 billion light years back in time to see a strange object: Quasar 3C-273. With your own eyes.
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. It is named after the Greek goddess, Maia or Roman goddess of fertility, Bona Dea. Old English – Maius, Latin name – Maius mensis – Month of Maia, Old French – Mai. Maia was one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes. Maia is the daughter of Atlas and Pleione the Oceanid and is the oldest of the seven Pleiades. Because they were daughters of Atlas, they were also called the Atlantides. For the Romans, it embodied the concept of growth and as her name was thought to be related to the comparative adjective maius, maior “larger, greater”. Convallaria majalis, the Lily of the Valley, is named after it and it is the flower of May in Europe.
The stars around Sirius make up the constellation of Canis Major which has some really nice open clusters to view through binoculars or a telescope.
This is all about our Sun, Solar System and our Galaxy and how they all fit together.
It would be ironic to discover life on Venus before we found out about it on Mars but scientists insist for now that is “just phosphine”.
Find out what’s in the night sky in September 2020 with Hari, Sam from the South and Peter Detterline form the Northern Hemisphere. Why bother
Watch the famous Perseid Meteor Shower online now live with Slooh. The famous shower is too low to observe properly from New Zealand and you’d have to wake up early in the morning for it.
This is a fly around of the area of Mars that the Perseverance rover will operate in.
Every so often I get this affliction I’ve had several times in my life, and hope to have several more times in the future. It’s called “cometosis”.
This video shows the position of Matariki relative to the Sun in mid-July. The video shows the night sky in the east throughout the whole night finishing with the sunrise.
What’s in the night sky in July 2020. Listen to our podcast covering both hemispheres with Sam, Hari and Peter.
We often just assume that our Earth is a puny little rock and these massive objects meander around the galaxy swallowing up unsuspecting planets. This is not the case, black holes can have massive mass but are only physically very small, as are neutron stars and white dwarfs.
The International Asteroid Day is observed every year on 30th of Jun. What prompted this and who is watching over us?
The position of stars can be described by coordinates that resemble that way we describe positions on the Earth’s surface.
Recently published research has demonstrated that the expansion of the universe and black holes may be linked.
Stardate South Island was held 17-19 Feb 2023 at Staveley, near Christchurch. It was a fantastic weekend and you can read all about it here.
Venus doesn’t capture a lot of press time as it’s often overshadowed by the more hospitable Mars and the more photogenic planets of Saturn and Jupiter. It’s not all quiet around Venus, as JAXA has Akatsuki orbiting Earth’s twin and sending back some great images and building our understanding of Venus.
We got AI to describe Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and the results are pretty good. We also got some AI images created.
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