News articles tagged with 'sky'
Sark becomes World's First Dark Sky Island
— 31 Jan 2011 16:28 | AstronomyThe Channel Island of Sark has been recognised for the quality of its night sky by the International Dark-sky Association (IDA), who have designated it the world's first dark sky island,…
Space telescopes reveal previously unknown brilliant X-ray explosion in our Milky Way galaxy
— 23 Oct 2010 16:42 | AstronomyAstronomers in Japan, using an X-ray detector on the International Space Station, and at Penn State University, using NASA's Swift space observatory, are announcing the discovery of…
Hartley 2 visible in night sky
— 21 Oct 2010 20:24 | AstronomyBackyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged…
Beach umbrellas do not block out all solar radiation
— 21 Jul 2010 09:33 | HealthA team of researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) has proven that 34% of ultraviolet radiation filters through under beach umbrellas. According to what is published in the…
VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work
— 12 Dec 2009 10:43 | AstronomyVISTA is the latest telescope to be added to ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed on the peak adjacent to the one hosting the ESO Very Large…
Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare
— 10 Dec 2009 09:05 | AstronomyA galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. Thanks to a series of flares that…
Planck first light yields promising results
— 17 Sep 2009 13:24 | AstronomyPlanck, 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.…
ESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
— 14 Sep 2009 14:20 | AstronomyThe 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…
Restoring our view of the stars in rural Britain
— 21 Apr 2009 14:01 | AstronomyRural 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…
Kepler captures first views of planet-hunting territory
— 18 Apr 2009 15:57 | AstronomyNASA'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…