galaxies

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Cameras

Time-Lapse Photography Captures Galactic Core of the Milky Way

2:20PM Dan Nosowitz | This gorgeous video is a compilation of shots taken with a Canon EOS-5D every 20 seconds over about nine hours at a star party in Fort Davis, Texas. It’s a humbling sight. More »
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Science

Milky Way Could Taste Like Raspberries, Astronomer Says

6:40AM Jesus Diaz | Those drunks scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy are at it again. While looking for amino acids in the Sagittarius B2 region they found how the galaxy tastes. It wasn’t chicken. More »
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Entertainment

The Star Wars Galaxy Fully Mapped in High Resolution

12:10AM Jesus Diaz | If there’s anything I like more than space it’s fake space. That’s why this map of the Star Wars Galaxy, from Coruscant to the Wild Space region, has me fascinated this morning. High res inside. More »
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Science

Astronomers Take FIRST EVER Pics Of Other Planetary Systems

12:30PM Elaine Chow | Huge astronomy news! For the first time EVER, galaxy researchers have taken pictures of planets orbiting a sun-star, much like our own. The first, taken by the much beloved Hubble Telescope, shows a planet orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis. The second picture, snapped by upstaging Hawaiian observatories Gemini and Keck, shows two young planets orbiting a completely different star located 130 light-years from us! Take that Hubble! But I warn you—like the ultrasounds your friends show you of their three-month old fetus—these pictures wow mostly because of what they are, not because of what they look like. More »
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