Terence Dickinson, Canada’s Famous Amateur Astronomer and Popularizer, Dies at 79
Terence Dickinson, a legendary Canadian amateur astronomer and publisher, passed away on Feb. 1 at age 79. Dickinson was the founding editor of the Canadian...
Category : Astronomy
A New Type Of Star Covered In Helium Burning Ashes
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in...
Planetary Nebula IC 418
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory contributes to the understanding of planetary nebulas by studying the hottest and most energetic processes still at work in these beautiful...
Planetary Nebula NGC 3242
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory contributes to the understanding of planetary nebulas by studying the hottest and most energetic processes still at work in these beautiful...
Unveiling Substructures At The Edge Of The Galaxy
An international team of astronomers led by researcher Chervin Laporte of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB-IEEC) has revealed a...
Astronomers Spy Quartet of Cavities From Giant Black Holes
Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory....
The Birth Of Stars
Dr. Agata Karska from the Institute of Astronomy at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, NCU (Torun, Poland), has focused her scientific interest on...
Reflection Nebula IC 2631
This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a portion of the reflection nebula IC 2631, which contains a protostar, the hot, dense core of a forming...
