by Bettina Forget | Jun 11, 2011 | News
Three of the newfound supernovae are pictured before explosion (left column) and after (right). Diagram courtesy Nature and Robert Quimby/Caltech . Re-post of Andrew Fazekas’ article on the National Geographic website . A new type of exploding supernova has been...
by Bettina Forget | Jun 11, 2011 | News
. Re-post of Andrew Fazekas’ article on the National Geographic website . This week’s titantic eruption seen on the surface of the Sun may have an extra surprise in store for skywatchers in the form of aurora borealis. While the video taken by NASA’s Solar...
by Bettina Forget | Mar 5, 2011 | News
Check out the April edition of Sky & Telescope! Our Montreal Centre member Tony Moffat is mentioned and photographed in an article titled Stellar Winds Above Atlantic Clouds On a cold mountaintop in the Canary Islands, amateurs work with pros on a hot-star...
by Bettina Forget | Feb 26, 2011 | News
Astronomers, and especially amateur astronomers, are at the forefront of many anti-light pollution campaigns the world over. It simply doesn’t occur to most people that lighting up your home like a hotel, or turning your driveway into a landing-strip fit for a...
by Bettina Forget | Feb 16, 2011 | News
The Sun has just spewed out two massive solar flares – one medium-sized flare on February 13, and one very strong one on February 15 (this one is the largest we’ve seen in the last four years). If you are lucky enough to have access to a place away from...
by Bettina Forget | Feb 15, 2011 | News
As the snow drifts past my window under cloudy skies, I’m counting the days until I can take my telescope out again and prowl the night sky. What did the groundhog say – two more weeks of winter? I think he was mistaken… For those of us in need of...
