The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
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Four billion years from now our sun might look a little like this except for one striking difference. It will not have those ever changing sunspots that dance across the face of the sun as we see it in the sky today. Well at least you would if you were looking at it through welding […]
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For all of Winter I have missed Orion in the night sky and until Summer the hunter will remain out of sight for all but the most dedicated night owls. This is image of the hunter is quite special for me and realises, albeit only just, a goal I have had all my life. Gazing […]
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At first I thought about calling this image ‘Seeing Stars’ but considering the significance of the fabulous Eta Carinae Nebula I felt compelled to give it the attention it deserves. This tiny piece of the night sky in the Milky Way is only a few widths of the moon across and yet even in this […]
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The moon is waxing again and soon will be full. The pattern repeats over and over but the sky is always different. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Lunar Layers’ 1/25s f/4 ISO1600 200mm
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