What Is The Best Beginner Telescope?

1 Jul 2009 at 10:36am  Are you considering getting into backyard astronomy? Even though there is much good with Hubble Space Telescope images, there is nothing like having your own telescope to view the heavens. As you...
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Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: largest map of cold dust revealed

1 Jul 2009 at 4:00am  ESO 24/09 - Photo Release: Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust - the potential birthplaces of new stars. Made using observations from the APEX telescope in Chile, this survey is the largest map of cold dust so far, and will prove an invaluable map for observations made with the forthcoming ALMA telescope, as well as the recently launched ESA Herschel space telescope.
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Bushnell Telescopes - Why They Are The Best

29 Jun 2009 at 3:25pm  With a growing obsession in the skies, many people are gazing upwards to the stars and planets, and with the number of meteor showers increasing people are turning to the 50 years of experience that a...
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Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act

25 Jun 2009 at 9:00am  ESO 23/09 - Science Release: Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way.s particle accelerators. They show in a paper published today on Science Express that cosmic rays from our galaxy are very efficiently accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars.
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World's fastest and most sensitive astronomical camera

18 Jun 2009 at 7:00am  ESO 22/09 - Organisation Release: The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even under the smallest illumination. The first 240x240 pixel images with the world's fastest high precision faint light camera were obtained through a collaborative effort between ESO and three French laboratories from the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (CNRS/INSU). Cameras such as this are key components of the next generation of adaptive optics instruments of Europe's ground-based astronomy flagship facility, the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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LAWS OF MAGNETIC ACTION.

13 Jun 2009 at 10:56pm  FIRST LAW: Relation of Power to "Tone". The effectiveness of magnetism in action depends upon harmony of "tone" between its possessor and any other person, and in securing such "tone" harmony, on...
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My Design Ideas In Paul Smiths Space Book

5 Jun 2009 at 6:07pm  I was privileged enough to recently attend a brief introduction to Paul Smiths forthcoming attractions hosted by one of his Australian representatives. The whole experience was naturally inspiration...
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