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Near Earth Asteroid Itokawa. A likely candidate for future mining opportunities. Credit JAXA Look back in history and [Read More]

People all over the world donate idle CPU and GPU time of their computers to support important scientific projects. An [Read More]

Your first telescope has just arrived and now you can’t wait to try it out. Trust me, I remember this feeling very [Read More]

The tables offer monthly positions of the four brightest planets: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Note, that a [Read More]

  Amateur astronomers have to face some challenges with equipment, weather and environment during their [Read More]

By Ralph O. Clements When I was invited to write about this subject for Astronomysource.com, I must say I was flattered [Read More]

 NASA’s Voyager 1 has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space, which scientists are [Read More]

Star trails, image credit: Ralph Clements Star trail images are beautiful to look at and they are captivating because [Read More]

The first part of this article gave an introduction of German Equatorial Mounts (GEMs) and discussed polar aligment [Read More]

The following DLR article talks about measurements and scientific experiments performed by Mars Express mission. By: [Read More]

Eyepiece projection is a great way to take detailed shoots of moon and planets. Photographed objects in these [Read More]

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Gravitational distortions caused by a black hole in front of the Large Magellan cloud. Black holes, the enigmatic [Read More]

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Is is possible to make astro-images with entry level digital point-and-shoot cameras? The answer to that question is a [Read More]