21.9.9: The Autumnal Equinox.
Can you feel it? The brunt of northern hemisphere summer is about over, giving way to our favorite season here at Astroguyz; Fall. It’s not just our collective imagination; this Tuesday marks the...
View Article16.10.09:A Moscow UFO?
What is it? Earlier this week, the above image and obligatory YouTube video flew around ye ‘ole Internet, purportedly showing an Independence Day-like spacecraft seemingly descending through the...
View Article17.10.09: Pondering the Possible Fate of the Earth.
Colossus-The Forbin Project: a Sci-Fi classic that kicked off the talks! What’s the future of humanity and life on Earth? Will we have a good multi-billion year run until our Sun swells into a red...
View ArticleEvent of the Week: Happy Winter Solstice!
Brace yourselves; the Winter Solstice is upon us this week. This is the point at which the Sun reaches its lowest southerly declination and begins its long march northward. This makes for shortened...
View ArticleAstroEvent: A Very Looong Annular Eclipse!
One of the more unique celestial events on the calendar for 2010 occurs on Friday, January 15th; an annular eclipse of the Sun, and the longest for the millennium! An annular solar eclipse...
View ArticleAstro-Event:The Vernal Equinox.
Watch for that rising/setting equinox Sun! (Credit: Art Explosion). Batten down the hatches; spring is here in a most astronomical way. The vernal equinox occurs this Saturday, March 20th at 17:32...
View Article15.04.10- Do We Know the Future of our Sun?
You Are Here! Our modern understanding of stellar evolution states that our Sun is a middle-aged main sequence star, destined to bellow up into a Red Giant in a few billion years and eventually...
View Article23.04.10-SDO Unveiled.
An SDO Original! Cool images Alert: NASAs recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has released some fairly mind-blowing pics and videos this week. The video below is but a small...
View Article25.04.10-First Extra-solar Magnetic Loop Recorded.
Artist’s conception of the radio flare superimposed over the Algol system. Radio-Interferometry has really shown its stuff as of late. Recently, astronomers have used a collaboration of radio...
View Article28.04.10-Green Light Given for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope.
Move over, SDO: the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy is going to kick the telescope envy game up a notch. The National Science Foundation gave the go ahead earlier this...
View Article26.05.10: SDO and the Coronal Rain.
NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory continues to astound. Launched earlier this year, SDO is already providing insight into key solar mysteries. One long standing mystery has been the action of...
View Article17.06.10: Living with Solar Cycle #24.
As our local star gets underway into solar cycle #24, all eyes, orbiting and ground based, are keeping a close watch. The very concept of space weather is coming very much into vogue, and the...
View ArticleAstro Event of the Week: The Heliacal Rising of Sirius.
August is traditionally a real roaster for the northern hemisphere. This month usually sees the onset of whats known as the Dog Days of summer but did you know that this term has an actual...
View ArticleAstro-Event: A Difficult Occultation.
Looking west from Tampa, Fl at about 5:40PM EST. (Created in Starry Night). This week, interesting planetary goings-on are afoot low in the western dusk skies, if you have the patience to observe...
View Article14.02.11: Sol Unleashes A Powerful Radio Flare.
An SDO spectrum composite of the sun as of Monday, February 14th. (Credit: NASA/SDO). Our nearest star unleashed the most powerful solar flare of 2011 thus far yesterday, and amateur and professionals...
View ArticleAstroEvent: Can You Spy the Zodiacal Light?
The Zodiacal Light as seen from Paranal. (Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky). This weeks astronomy challenge is seasonal for mid-latitude observers. Around the time of the equinox, the ecliptic meets the...
View ArticleAstroEvent: Will Anyone Welcome the New Saros?
A Remote partial for the hardcore…(Credit: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC). This week, wed like to turn your attention to a unique event that no one but a few penguins may witness....
View ArticleReview: The Suns Heartbeat by Bob Berman.
Out from Little-Brown! Think you know our nearest star? Think again no other astronomical object influences our often mundane daily lives like our Sun. Think about it; the fuel in our cars, the energy...
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