Archive for January, 2012
Northern Lights put on a show
Ghostly aerial glows delight skywatchers across the Northern Hemisphere this week.
Mini-Solar System has smallest planets found so far
NASA’s Kepler mission has found three planets smaller than Earth circling a dim, red star.
Earth from Space: Sideways view of Antarctica
Amazing view from space shows Livingston and Deception Islands, in Antarctica.
Gallery: The Omega Nebula
One of the Milky Way’s youngest and most active stellar nurseries for massive stars.
Earth from Space – Eruption in the Red Sea
Dramatic image of a volcanic eruption in the middle of one of the world’s busiest waterways.
Earth from Space – Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Paradise of low islands and coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, the barely inhabited Cocos (Keeling Islands).
Galaxy at the dawn of time
NASA space telescopes help spot a rare galaxy, as it was when the universe was young.
Giant star-jet astounds astronomers
Star is spitting out material in a “jet” 400 million million kilometres in length!
What’s up? Night sky for January 2012
When and where to see the Moon and planets this month.
Gallery – The Sculptor Galaxy
Also known as the Silver Dollar, this “starburst” galaxy is 11.5 million light-years away.
