The Rosette Nebula
A Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography This book on CD-ROM for beginning astrophotographers explains how to take beautiful images with your digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera using simple step-by-step techniques that anyone can learn. You will see how easy it is to take great pictures with very modest equipment and basic methods that are within everyone's ability. With this book you will learn how to take amazing images of the night sky with your DSLR camera. Get Started in DSLR Astrophotography Today! Click here to learn more about the book or to order it now!
Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence
Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever--so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe. The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty lush. Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water--20,000 times over.
The 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition winners
Australian based photographer Martin Pugh has claimed the top prize in the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for the second time, after originally winning the accolade back in 2009. As well as securing the £1,500 top prize, his image takes pride of place in the exhibition of winning photographs opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on 20 September. Pugh impressed the judges in this year’s competition with the depth and clarity of his winning shot depicting the famous Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). The image combines incredible detail in the galaxy’s spiral arms with the faint tails of light that show M51’s small companion galaxy being gradually torn apart by the gravity of its giant neighbour; a closer look also reveals more distant galaxies beyond. Deep Space category winner, and overall winner: M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy by Martin Pugh (Australia)
Winners announced for best night sky photos of the year
Despite our millennia-long obsession with stargazing — it's recorded in everything from our ancient monuments to primitive art to modern-day TV shows — many humans today will never witness the magnificent scale of the stars' and planets' nightly light show, scientists say. Light pollution, the scourge of stargazers everywhere, is increasingly blotting out the celestial dazzle once available to all. Wish you could get the views your great-great-grandparents may have gotten just by stepping out the front door? Take a look at the winning photographs in this year's Earth & Sky Photo Contest, put on by The World at Night (TWAN), an international organization dedicated to night-sky photography. [Related: See all the Contest-Winning Photos.]
The Making of a Mind-Blowing Space Photo
One late night in 2007, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and his wife were driving down Highway 1 along California’s Lost Coast, when his wife opened the moon roof. What spread out above them looked nothing like the mauve sky near their Sunnyvale home. “It was like the Milky Way was in front of us,” said Andreo, a former early eBay employee, who runs a Spanish-language internet company.
How Far Away is the Sun? Another Visualization. - Brad BlogSpeed
Alright, this one’s a doozy. After the reasonable popularity of last week’s scale picture that illustrated the distance between the Earth and the Moon, I just had to take things to the next logical level. Today I’ve reduced the scale, and increased the image size dramatically, to represent one astronomical unit (AU), or the distance between the earth and the Sun.*
Ancient poo gives clues to human impact on environment
27 November 2012Last updated at 04:33 ET By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News The study centred on Norway's picturesque Lofoten Islands US scientists say they can track early human movements by analysing molecules in ancient faecal matter. Researchers were able to use prehistoric poo to establish the presence and size of a population dating back over 7,000 years. They argue the method could be used to distinguish human from natural impacts on past environments.
StereoMan » Hubble photos
4/26/2010 M64 “Black Eye” Galaxy click the picture 17 million light-years from Earth lies Messier 64, otherwise known as the Black Eye Galaxy, or Sleeping Beauty. Discovered in 1779 by Edward Pigott, astronomers thought for centuries that it was a fairly ordinary spiral galaxy. But recent observations, including those of the Hubble telescope, have revealed something truly extraordinary about M64. While it is true that all of the stars are rotating in the same direction, it appears that the gases in the outer regions of the galaxy are going the other way!
Astronomical &Nightscape Photography by Chris Cook
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Namib Desert beetle inspires self-filling water bottle
23 November 2012Last updated at 10:46 ET The Namib Desert beetle harvests moisture from the air to survive A US start-up has turned to nature to help bring water to arid areas by drawing moisture from the air. NBD Nano aims to mimic the way a beetle survives in an African desert to create a self-filling water bottle capable of storing up to three litres every hour.
