SH 2-106, aka “Celestial Snow Angel,” is a nebula about 2,000 light-years from earth “in a relatively isolated region of Milky Way galaxy.” At its center is a massive young star (story here, more details here). In this picture, you can see why it’s likened to a snow ang[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy’
May 23rd, 2016 - 8:06 pm § in Misc.
Fourteen Months Till Your Next Chance to Visit Mars
From Universe Today A year on Mars lasts almost 689 days. In other words, a Martian year is 1.88 times as long as an Earth year. For every time Mars completes a single orbit around the Sun, Earth has almost gone around twice. A Mars Opposition occurs when planet Earth passes in between the Sun [&h[...]
December 10th, 2014 - 9:31 am § in The Ave Scene
Exoplanets
Earth based Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres a talk by Dr. Matteo Brogi at UW, Dec. 4th, 2014. Last Thursday’s Astronomy colloquium was delivered by Matteo Brogi, Hubble Fellow at the University of Colorado. He described very recent use of Doppler shifted, earth based absorption spec[...]
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