by Colin Stuart | Jan 21, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
In the 1990s it adorned mugs, mousemats and bedroom walls. Now the Eagle Nebula has been revisited by the Hubble Space Telescope – the observatory that first brought it to worldwide attention. The original iconic image was taken at visible wavelengths –...
by Colin Stuart | Jan 15, 2015 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
Astronomy has always been at the cutting edge of technology. And now the worlds of stargazing and 3D printing are meeting, helping us understand what’s going on in the most luminous stellar system for light years around: Eta Carinae. The system is comprised of...