One Minute Astronomer

As NASA’s Dawn orbiter approached the Ceres in late February, it released tantalizing images of a pair of bright spots on the floor of a big crater of the dwarf planet. But after the craft beg...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10904/bright-spots-on-ceres-return-to-view/

In a remarkable discovery, astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have discovered that quasars separated by billions of light years are aligned parallel to each other, as ...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10900/alignment-of-quasars-across-the-universe/

Venus is just over 2° from the Pleiades star cluster, while the V-shaped Hyades star cluster, which makes up much of the constellation Taurus, is to the left of Venus in this image. This image t...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10896/venus-and-the-pleiades-on-april-12-2015/

… means there’s no stargazing tonight. The red sky outside my window this morning foreshadows the expected 3 cm of snow today. Enough, please.

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10894/red-sky-in-morning/

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is fast becoming my favorite telescope. New results and observations are coming out as the array ramps up its technical capabilities, and this week the ...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10890/a-near-perfect-einstein-ring-imaged-by-alma/

Alan Dyer has been doing some superb nightscape imaging from Monument Valley in Utah. My blog for April 6 features sunset & moonlight images I shot over Easter at #MonumentValley. http://t.co/OYh...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10889/nightscapes-from-monument-valley/

4 April 2015. Full Moon, 13:05 UT. (The “Pink Moon”, “Egg Moon”, or “Grass Moon”). 4 April. A brief lunar eclipse occurs near today’s Full Moon just two weeks after last month’...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10846/the-sky-this-month-april-2015/

This stunning wide-angle view of the southern Milky Way from ESO’s Paranal Observatory shows the galactic center near Sagittarius at lower left, the beautiful section in Centaurus and through t...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10841/satellite-trails-in-the-southern-skies/

The constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog, contains a handful of splendid star clusters for observers with a small telescope. Messier 41 is the most famous and easiest to see. The lesser known ...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10845/carolines-cluster-ngc-2360/

Why are so many barns painted red? The answer to this seemingly simple question goes deep into the physics of massive stars at the end of their lives. In 2013, a Google employee named Yonatan Z...

http://oneminuteastronomer.com/10837/red-barns-dying-stars-nucleosynthesis/