Friday, December 24, 2021

Capture the Cosmos With Your Smartphone

12/24/2021

NEWS & FEATURES

Capture the cosmos with your smartphone
Michael Weasner

You don’t need top-tier equipment to image the night sky through your telescope. Your phone can do the trick.

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Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut?
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Rather than super-geniuses or super-athletes, NASA’s looking for super-roommates who also happen to be very good scientists.

Exoplanets Flashcards 
Track down the 25 best planetary nebulae in the night sky
ESO

These dying stars’ final acts put on a great show through amateur scopes

Astronomers confirm there's a third type of supernova explosion
Courtesy of NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale and Las Cumbres Observatory

The new sighting shores up a decades-old suspicion about a particularly famous blast: the one that created the Crab Nebula.

Ask Astro: Are meteorites radioactive?
NASA/JSC/ANSMET

Do meteorites emit a high degree of radiation when they fall to Earth? Should precautions be taken when handling them?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
JLS Photography

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A pair in the Bear
Abhijit Patil from Hudson, New Hampshire

Bode’s Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) lie in the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. Both can be viewed from a dark site through a telescope with an eyepiece that provides a field of view a bit larger than one-half degree.

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