I was surprised to learn that some scenes of the new and 22nd James Bond film had some scenes shot at Mount Cerro Paranal with the VLT (Very Large Telescope).
Apparently, because the Atacama desert is so hot and arid, humidity drops below 10%, so architects had to build the ‘Residencia’, so called because it has […]

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If you’ve just started an astronomy website or blog using wordpress, you’ll notice that there’s a nice tool implemented directly into the interface called Sidebar Widgets
Here are a few resources to turn your sidebar into a really cool and nasty full time astronomy observatory…
The must-have is, without doubt, the astronomy picture of the day (APOD) […]

After spending some (a lot) of time looking for the VLT on Google Maps, I finally found it! The Very Large Telescope is a set of 4 large astronomical telescopes, among the largest in the world (8.2 meters of diameter per telescope, set up in interfrerometer, and part of the European Southern Observatory, the ESO. […]

I finally had my first attempt at space art using photoshop CS2. The result isn’t very realistic, but its not bad for a start. Tell me what you think (click on it for a wallpaper-sized image):

I’ve also made another Space Art CGI Image of a star field, which is a bit in a Milky Way […]