Space Fan News #101: Goodbye Herschel; Dusty Black

Mystery of Ultra Diffuse Galaxy with NO Dark Matter Solved

8th Jun, 2019 - 8569 views

Remember that ultra diffuse galaxy I told you about in SFNs 226 and 232? You know, the one with NO dark matter? Well turns out there is dark matter there.

Biological Time and The Drake Equation

6th Jun, 2019 - 388 views

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Biological Time and the Drake Equation

6th Jun, 2019 - 3558 views

Like this content? Please consider becoming a patron: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy Today's guest is Bernie Taylor and we'll be talking about the Drake Equation and the commonality of life in the universe. Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @Deep

Can We See the Pillars of Creation with Amateur Astronomy Telescopes

5th Jun, 2019 - 3397 views

In the late spring skies in the northern hemisphere, looking towards the southeast in the hours after midnight, there is a region of star formation that right now, is home to newborn stars: The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula

NASAs Juno Finds Great Blue Spot Affects Jupiters Entire Magnetic Field

24th May, 2019 - 3470 views

NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter finds that the Great Blue Spot affects the entire magnetic field

Star Atlases and Planispheres w/ Wil Tirion

14th May, 2019 - 1222 views

Star atlases are an essential tool for use in amateur astronomy. Although most people use them in digital or App form, there is still room on our bookshelves for some old-school printed maps.

Your Sky Tonight The Southern Crab Nebula

10th May, 2019 - 2169 views

Every year, in celebration of another monumental anniversary of observations and discovery, the astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope release an annual image highlighting the beauty of our cosmos.

How to Measure Exoplanet Transit Light Curves w Amateur Telescopes

7th May, 2019 - 976 views

Off the shelf telescopes and cameras for amateur astronomy are now sensitive enough that you can actually measure exoplanets from your backyard! This hangout features a discussion with Jerry Hubbell from Explore Scientific.

The Hubble Constant Isnt

3rd May, 2019 - 7779 views

The Big Bang description of our universe is heavily based on mathematical models that do not seem to stand up well to observations. Is the Big Bang Model doomed?

The Era of Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Has Arrived

25th Apr, 2019 - 4802 views

In this episode, astronomers are finally starting to get direct images of planets around other stars, and not only that, for the first time, ground-based telescopes are actually getting measurements of the atmospheres of these galactic neighbors.

Was The EHT Black Hole Image a Waste of Time

18th Apr, 2019 - 10.4K views

Was the Event Horizon Telescope Black Hole image a waste of time? Astronomy research has a lot to teach us about our cosmos.

The PANOPTES Project Measure Exoplanets from Your Backyard

18th Apr, 2019 - 931 views

Telescope Talk Hangouts are sponsored by OPT Telescopes: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Project PANOPTES is a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotiic observatory that can be used to detect transiting exopla

Space Fan News #101: Goodbye Herschel; Dusty Black Holes; New JWST Milestone

Don't forget to follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter! Here are links to this week's stories: Herschel Space Telescope Turned Off: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Herschel_ends_operations_as_orbiting_testbed http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/

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