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  • Gallery: Cosmic pictures from the AAS | Bad Astronomy

    Superluminous gallery collection. Thanks BA. At first glance the grey insets on the right almost look like Borg cubes! The pictures are wonderful but I got hooked on each informative text, compelling me to read through the whole presentation as well as look. Thanks!

  • Rosetta’s stunning Mars | Bad Astronomy

    In 2007, the European Space Agency probe passed by Mars on its way to visit a comet. It used Mars for a gravity assist to help it on its way, and got close enough to take some very detailed pictures (it also passed by the asteroid Lutetia and returned amazing shots; see the gallery at [...]

  • The Helix screams in infrared | Bad Astronomy

    About 700 light years away sits the expanding death cry of a star: the Helix Nebula, a four-light-year wide gas cloud blasted out when a star that was once like the Sun gave up its life. A new image of it in colors just outside what the human eye can see shows just how much [...]

  • As from above, so from below | Bad Astronomy

    NASA’s Earth Observatory site just put up this amazing picture. I have to say, this is one of the cooler pictures from the International Space Station that I’ve seen. Not for it’s beauty or anything like that — though it is starkly lovely — but because of what it shows: [Click to dicraternate.] Obviously, that’s [...]

  • Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth Flyby

    The close pass of the asteroid Eros this week allows astronomy buffs to measure the size of the solar system.

  • Who Will Be the Next Astronomy Photographer of the Year?

    Attention all astrophotographers (as well as those of us who just enjoy looking at great astronomy images!): The Royal Observatory Greenwich is launching its annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, and is searching for the most beautiful, dramatic and spectacular images of the cosmos. Anyone from around the world can enter and the winning [...]

  • Know Your Madisonian: Photography a byproduct of John Rummel's astronomy passion

    In early December, John Rummel drove slowly through a Monona neighborhood, peering into backyards. An amateur astronomer and photographer, Rummel, 49, knew there would be a lunar eclipse on Dec. 10, and he wanted to make sure he had the best spot to capture it.

  • In pictures: Hawking exhibition at Science Museum

    Exhibition celebrates the life and work of the famous physicist

  • Space Pictures This Week: Italy Shipwreck, Squashed Moon

    The Costa Concordia from above, a rusty dead star, a "fresh" Mars crater, and a sinking moon are among the week's best space pictures.

  • Eros Asteroid Flyby Attracts Amateur Astronomers

    In 1931, the close approach of the asteroid Eros allowed professional astronomers to calculate its distance and make that era's most accurate measurement of the solar system.
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