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02 June 2009
Magic Bubble - NGC 7635 by JP Metsavainio
Away in the constellation of Cassiopeia some 7,100 light-years from Earth, a star 40 times more massive than our Sun is blowing a giant bubble of its own material into space. Inside its magic blue sphere, the gigantic star burns at blue flame intensity - rendering a 6 light year wide envelope of hot [...]
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15 March 2009
Journey Inside M104
Almost every amateur astronomer is familiar with the Sombrero Galaxy (also known as M104 or NGC 4594) - an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. We've seen it in both small and large telescopes, picked up its ghostly signature in binoculars and dreamed over its structure in photographs. Now, for the first [...]
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07 November 2008
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - November 7-9, 2008
Greetings, fellow StarGeezers! It's Friiiii day… And another great weekend forecast. Does having all this Moon around get you down? It shouldn't. Where else could you find another world that you could so intimately study detail with even the most modest of telescopes or binoculars? Instead of cursing Luna's presence, [...]
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10 June 2008
Unique Telescope Facility Opens In Swiss Biosphere
In the easternmost part of Switzerland near the Italian border, lies a pristine area of land ranging from 1,400 to 3,173 meters above sea level. It encompasses 172,400 hectares of forests, alpine grasslands and bare rocks or screes that are strictly protected and not inhabited. Each year, around 50 researchers from Switzerland and [...]
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07 April 2008
SkyWatcher Alert: The Moon and M45 Meet… Again!
Sure. For those of us who hang around the night sky, we know the Plieades and the Moon frequently venture near each other during the course of a year, but it's much less common for the Moon to be in a crescent phase when they visit. Because the light of the nearby Moon [...]

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