Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Uranus is not as boring as we thought

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The conventional view of Uranus has been that its apparent surface shows few, if any, distinguishing features. The images from the Voyager 2...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Lucky Infrared Images of Jupiter

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Back in 2011 I noted some IR shots of outer planets by Mike Brown at Caltech, at a wavelength of 1.5 µm. Last week another fascinating se...
Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Flying high ... for infrared

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One of Nasa's longer-running infrared astronomy projects is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). It uses a pre-...
Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Spitzer gone ... waiting for Webb

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I have to admit that I am not as au fait with what's happening in astronomy these days as I should be; especially since infrared astrono...
Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Infrared astronomy faces a gap

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In late 2016 I noted that the James Web infrared space telescope was two years away ( in this post ) but it now seems that the launch has be...
Monday, 7 November 2016

Two years to James Webb ... and counting

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Once upon a time infrared was regarded as being the new astronomy . There was even a book of that title, published in 1975 and written by Da...
Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Thermal Eclipse

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Many thanks to Dr Chris Lavers of the University of Plymouth for sending over unusual views of last week's partial solar eclipse. Here...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

More snippets

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Apologies for not posting yet this year ... but here are a few items to make up for it. Towards the end of last year I came across a claim...
Friday, 10 February 2012

BBC Sky at Night on Infrared

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The current edition of Sir Patrick Moore's long-running BBCTV astronomy programme, The Sky at Night , is called Age of the Infrared (fo...
Thursday, 12 January 2012

American Astronomical Society Austin sees new infrared images

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The BBC web site has a small slide show of some far infrared images from space telescopes (such as WISE, Herschel and Spitzer) that were re...
Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Outer planets ablaze at 1.5 microns

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Astronomer Mike Brown at Caltech hunts in the outer reaches of the solar system. He usually concentrates on what is called the Kuiper Belt w...