June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
... star-forming region NGC 3603 contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... the ILO-1 astrophysical observatory and research station, one of its tasks is to capture the first image of the Milky Way galaxy centre from the surface of the Moon. It is also planned to observe the Stars, Earth in various wavelengths...
23 July 2015
Exoplanet Kepler 452b and what the search for a real life “Another Earth” means for human self-perception
... to teach us…about ourselves. Kepler 452b, discovered by the Kepler Telescope, is located in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In terms of the vastness of space, it is relatively “close” – a mere 1,400 light years away from us. Everything we currently...
01 November 2015
The business of stargazing: from observatory tours to ‘Discovery at Sea’
... cruise provides a chance to look at both hemispheres, with the Southern Hemisphere providing a very different view of the Milky Way than the Northern Hemisphere. ‘Discovery at Sea’ is one of the more ambitious ventures catering to the human longing...
