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Mars Orbiter spies Phobos in front of Red Planet

Mars Orbiter spies Phobos in front of Red Planet

by Colin Stuart | Feb 5, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised

Unlike our Moon, which is about one quarter the size of Earth, Phobos, the largest of Mars’s two moons is tiny – just 25 kilometres across. That makes it smaller than London. In this new image, released from The Mars Orbiter, Phobos is seen passing in...

Cassini spies tiny moon Epimetheus next to Saturn’s rings

by Colin Stuart | Feb 2, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised

Saturn is a lot of people’s favourite planet due to its resplendent rings. Some of those rings – made of house-sized chunks of ice – have recently been snapped by the Cassini space probe alongside the planet’s diminutive moon Epimetheus (just...

Beautiful new Hubble image of NGC 7714

by Colin Stuart | Jan 29, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised

The Hubble Space Telescope is the gift that keeps on giving. For more than 20 years now it has been churning out spectacular views of the cosmos. And this latest image of the galaxy NGC 7714 is no exception.   It beautifully illustrates how, over time, gravity...

Jawdropping new image of mystery gas cloud

by Colin Stuart | Jan 28, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised

Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to image the ethereal gas cloud known as CG4.   It is an example of a ‘cometary globule’ – long, stretched out clouds of gas that are reminiscent of comets. They were first discovered in...

Moon revealed around asteroid that recently buzzed past Earth

by Colin Stuart | Jan 27, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised

NASA has released new data from yesterday’s cosmic fly-past when asteroid 2004 BL86 zoomed past the Earth at a slightly greater distance than our Moon. Those observations appear to reveal the asteroid has a moon of its own. The main asteroid is 325 metres across...
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