Tag: starry sky
Munich: Astrophysicist Jana Steuer – Munich
A nine-year-old girl sits in the lecture hall of the Munich Public Observatory. It’s about nuclear fission, radioactivity and dark matter. And about the women in the history of astrophysics…
Astronomy: How to discover the green comet 12P Pons-Brooks
“12P Pons-Brooks” can currently be seen over Germany and can even be seen with the naked eye. If you want to discover it in the sky, you have to keep…
Young galaxies look like pool noodles: explanation for this phenomenon – knowledge
What do galaxies look like whose light takes billions of years to reach Earth? Science still knows surprisingly little about this. A group of researchers has now investigated the question…
Young galaxies look like pool noodles – knowledge
What do galaxies look like whose light takes billions of years to reach Earth? Science still knows surprisingly little about this. A group of researchers has now investigated the question…
Astronomy: The best constellations of the year
Shipwrecks in the nebula and the sound of a black hole: the winners of the “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” competition. source site
Shooting stars in Munich: So close to heaven – Munich
It’s balmy summer nights like this when you should lie down on a meadow and just look up. A small tail, a bright flash, can be discovered quickly and frequently…
Is the supernova of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse imminent? – Knowledge
These days, hobby stargazers and professional astronomers are staring spellbound at the night sky and hoping for death. A stellar death, to be precise: that of Betelgeuse, the reddish glowing…
Supernovae: At the Star Cemetery – Knowledge
It looks like an abstract oil painting or a gelatinous substance in water. In fact, the image astronomers created with two Australian radio telescopes shows a stellar graveyard in the…
Stars in December: Mars proximity and Martian eclipse – Panorama
Highlights: Mars is the focus this month. Reaching opposition on December 8, the red planet rises at sunset, sets at sunrise and shines far in the south at midnight as…
Stars in November: Parade of the Planets – Panorama
Saturn, Jupiter and Mars shine in the November night sky, as if threaded on an invisible cord. Where they got their names from. Highlights: The sky this month features a…