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Astronomy in November 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
This month offers a bit of everything: a once-in-a-lifetime interstellar visitor passing through, a brilliant supermoon lighting up the sky, two bright comets fading out after their October glory, planets dancing in interesting ways, and even a couple of meteor showers ...
Supernova light echo captured by Hubble
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
It’s not every day that a telescope 340 miles above Earth drops a view that feels more like science fiction than astrophysics, but when Hubble turned its attention toward a stellar explosion that happened ten million years ago, it gave the world something close to time travel. Not the shiny, w...
Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST free webinar
Monday, March 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
On March 15, 2025, at 9:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP) will host a free webinar titled "Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST." The event features Dr. John C. Mather, a Nobel laureate in Physics (2006) and Senior Astrophysicist ...
Accumulation of dust particles examined
Thursday, November 14, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
In a fascinating exploration of the cosmos, astronomers have been delving into the accumulation of dust particles in space, particularly focusing on the reflection nebula known as vdB 9 in the constellation Cassiopeia. This nebula is illuminated by the Cepheid variable star SU Cassiopeiae, whose blu...