Starship Asterisk*

Today's picture, Changes in Angular Mars - all images taken from Earth at the same magnification - reveals quite a lot of cobweb-like canals, especially in the third line of images. With today's CCD images, it's easier to understand how Lowell & the others got so carried away

The nebula shines due to synchrotron radiation, the source of the particles being the pulsar wind. However, the exact mechanics of the situation have been a matter of debate. There's a paper discussing various models here: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0702/0702512v2.pdf It's a very express...

The Earth is a planet, in a solar system, in a galaxy, in the universe. It's atmosphere is arguably the most interesting we can observe, involving all sorts of spectacular & intriguing structures. These can be related, to some extent, to some of the events we see unfolding in the atmospheres of ...

I remember admiring the work of Tony Hallas & Daphne Mount in US astronomy magazines in the '80s & '90s. In those days they were using modestly sized but high quality apochromatic refractors & long exposures on hypered film. I notice on their website that these days they are "all di...

Yes, I think they meant to write "more shallow" not "less shallow".