Althought I was clouded out last night, I’ve been enjoying the many pictures which arrived in my inbox overnight. Here are some sent to BBC News, and very lovely they are too.
Or at least, they are until we click through to picture 5, where we’re told that
Comet McNaught is passing close to the Sun, whose [...]
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Having publicised the 2mass survey earlier in the month, I can’t resist posting links to a couple of other nice movies which illustrate our place in space.
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The first starts off by flying toward Orion, past some of the galaxy’s highlights before heading to the Virgo cluster via M81 and M82 (a galaxy close to my [...] -
Sometimes, all too rarely, there is a news story which needs no further explanation. How wonderful is this image? The rovers have been doing incredible things (and I’m looking forward to interviewing their creator, Steve Squyers, again next month) but to see one of them from orbit just illustrates how rapidly Mars exploration is advancing.
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The fourth of the entries in the Sky at Night magazine’s ‘Hotshots’ competition is our second photo of the Great Orion nebula, M42, which couldn’t look much different from the last one. This one was taken through narrowband filters in order to avoid the worst of the light pollution, which seems to have brought out [...]
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More content to follow with any luck later today, but for now here’s the third of the hotshots; the Moon over St Paul’s cathedral. I really can’t make up my mind over this shot. The cross in front of the full Moon is fantastic, but the plane (amusing though it is) seems to detract from [...]
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The second entry for the competition is this shot of the great Orion nebula. This happens to be my favourite object in the sky (and if it isn’t yours, why on Earth not?); I saw it first through my own six inch reflector, on a very dark and clear night and I can still remember [...]
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One of the most enjoyable tasks I’ve had in the last few weeks (along with moving office to a different city, and finding a flat, and submitting my thesis…) was judging the Sky at Night magazine’s photo competition. Now, they’re not having any sort of public vote, relying on a panel of judges to select [...]
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I’ve been talking a lot recently about the impact of seeing the Earth as a planet for the first time; perhaps the most enduring legacy of Apollo is the image that we all have of a round Earth hanging in space. Interestingly, it seems that this wasn’t something the astronauts had particularly thought about seeing [...]
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