Orion’s Parsec 10100C Color Astronomical Imaging Camera has a 10.7-megapixel CCD sensor, dual-stage cooling, and a 2″ nosepiece. The camera connects to a Windows computer via USB 2.0. Orion includes ...

If you want to find the size of a basketball, you can use a normal meter stick to measure the diameter. You should get a value of around 0.24 meters. Please don't use inches—they are just harder to ...

This particular pair, each more massive than 800 million Suns, lies in a galaxy 2.5 billion light-years away. The galaxy itself is a merger remnant — all that’s left after two galaxies, each hosting a ...

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Merritt, David R., et al. "On the Origins of Enigmatic Stellar Populations in Local Group Galactic Nuclei." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 463. 2 (2016): 1605--1623. Print. * ...

The Award Winning 365 Days Of Astronomy is proud to announce the project will continue in 2016. This will mark its eighth year of production. 365 Days Of Astronomy started its journey in 2009 as part ...

Laura Nicole Driessen is part of MeerTRAP, which is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No ...