Light Pollution. You’ve heard about it. And if you haven’t, you should have.
If you’ve ever looked up at the sky in the middle of a city, medium or large, you’ll notice that the sky at night has a nasty orangy look, and that the clouds are pink. And then you go: That’s IT? Is that […]

Hello,
Here’s the list of what I consider being the top 10 hubble pictures of all time, in order (this is subjective, please add suggestions in comments.)
The List
Here’s the list of the pictures I consider to be the best

The Antennae Galaxies
Cone Nebula
Sombrero Galaxy
Orion Nebula
Mice Galaxies
Pillars of Creation
Clown Nebula
V838 Monocerotis
Helix Nebula
Clown Nebula

The Images
These are Not in Order

Downloads
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After posting the Location of the VLT on Mount Cerro Paranal in Chile, here are the two Keck Domes and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope up on Mount Mauna Kea in Hawaii. These three were much more easy to find, given the fact that its up on a god damn volcano on a tiny island.
I […]

There are some astronomy and physics numbers you just have to know if you’re an amateur astronomer. Here they are:

13.7 billion - Age of the Universe
110 - The number of entries in Messier’s catalog
1642 - Date of Birth of Newton, Date of Death of Galileo Galilei
150 million - Distance between Earth and Sun in Kilometers […]

The Redshift was the first element to contradict Aristotle’s view of the universe, which is that the universe is static, never changed, and will never change (except on Earth, where things do change).
When American astronomer Edwin Hubble began to observe galaxies, he noticed that their spectra (what types of light do objects emit: mostly X […]

Gravitational mirages are a phenoma that happen at such a large scale that it’s difficult for us humans to imagine them. However we know they exist. This happens in galaxy clusters, which happen to be one of the most massive and large objects known by mankind. On this HST picture figures one of the largest […]