Astronomy

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Friday, 29 March, 2024

Ye stars, which are the poetry of heaven.

Monday, 2 October, 2023

Hunting for Exoplanets

Sunday, 1 October, 2023

Final Mirror Fabrication Begins, The Giant Magellan Telescope

Sunday, 9 July, 2023

Humour too.

From the ESO Supernova to the end of the Universe, and a bit more.

Multi-AO Imaging Camera for Deep Observations, aka MICADO

The Extremely Large Telescope, Atacama Desert, Republic of Chile.

Galaxy Density, Molecular Cloud Frequency, and the Commonality of Biological Life in Fixed Matter Systems.

In this image taken by the European Southern Observatory La Silla facility in the Atacama region of the Republic of Chile, an area of outstanding Astronomical and scientific research, we observe a large molecular cloud of dust and other material which is part of the local Galactic plane, the area  […]

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"Above all the search for biological life should be firmly positioned as the primary goal of all astronomical activity, a principle that transcends any other for reasons which go well beyond all contemporary reasoning."