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Planck first light yields promising results

— 17 Sep 2009 13:24 | Astronomy

Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2, on 13 August.... — full story

This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet, (c) ESOESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky

— 14 Sep 2009 14:20 | Astronomy

The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project - a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile - has just been... — full story

View from Malvern hills over the Severn Valley towards Worcester sky-glow, (c) Royal Astronomical SocietyRestoring our view of the stars in rural Britain

— 21 Apr 2009 14:01 | Astronomy

Rural areas in Britain could see a return to dark skies, if the UK lighting industry adopts the results of a seven-year study by Dr Chris Baddiley, the Scientific Advisor to the BAA... — full story

This image zooms into a small portion of Kepler's full field of view - an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy. An eight-billion-year-old cluster of stars 13,000 light-years from Earth, called NGC 6791, can be seen in the image. Clusters are families of stars that form together out of the same gas cloud. This particular cluster is called an open cluster, because the stars are loosely bound and have started to spread out from each other, (c) NASA, Ames, JPL-CaltechKepler captures first views of planet-hunting territory

— 18 Apr 2009 15:57 | Astronomy

NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new 'first light' images show the mission's target... — full story

Share your nightscape with the world

— 16 Mar 2009 13:30 | Astronomy

GLOBE at night, the international star-counting programme, starts today, 16 March, 2009, a key activity during this International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). Running between 16 and... — full story

The coolest and oldest objects in the galaxy measured from Calar Alto

— 14 Feb 2009 09:50 | Astronomy

Spiral galaxies as our own are made up from several structural components. Their most outstanding part is a flat disc where stars and gas trace graceful spiral arms. In the centre of... — full story

Aerial view of Milagro (1999), (c) University of MarylandMilagro detects cosmic ray hot spots

— 24 Nov 2008 19:50 | Astronomy

The University of Maryland-led Milagro collaboration, comprised of scientists from 16 institutions across the United States, has discovered two nearby regions with an unexpected excess... — full story

The Chandra Deep Field South, observed in the U-, B-, and R-bands with ESO's VIMOS and WFI instruments. The U-band VIMOS observations were made over a period of 40 hours and constitute the deepest image ever taken from the ground in the U-band, (c) ESO, Mario Nonino, Piero Rosati and the ESO GOODS TeamDeepest ultraviolet image of the Universe yet

— 8 Nov 2008 18:14 | Astronomy

This uniquely beautiful patchwork image, with its myriad of brightly coloured galaxies, shows the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), arguably the most observed and best studied region... — full story

Team hopes to use new technology to search for extraterrestrials

— 4 Jun 2008 21:49 | Astronomy

A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible... — full story

Seeing clearly despite the clouds

— 21 May 2008 21:44 | Environment

Satellites taking atmospheric measurements might now be able to see blue skies as clearly as optimists do. Researchers have found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites... — full story

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