astronomy

On June 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM, ET, Hamptons Observatory and co-host Suffolk County Community College will present a free virtual lecture by Dr. Jane Huang from the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University. She will lead us on a journey, “Peering into the Birthplaces of Planets,” and help us...

On May 8, 2025, at 7:00 PM, Hamptons Observatory and co-host Suffolk County Community College will present a free virtual lecture by Dr. Anže Slosar, leader of the Cosmology & Astrophysics Group at Brookhaven National Lab, and the Science Lead for the LuSEE-Night Project, a radio telescope which...

Is space trash from extraterrestrial technological civilizations lurking among natural interstellar rocks? New Galileo Project Observatories are monitoring millions of objects near Earth; are any of them Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena? On March 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM, ET, Hamptons Observatory and...

On February 20th at 7:00 PM, ET, Hamptons Observatory will present a free, virtual lecture by a NASA space physicist and leader of a citizen science project that’s dedicated to understanding auroras. Dr. Elizabeth MacDonald will discuss auroras, what they are, how they are studied, and how you...

Solution to singularity problem, Solution to infinite density problem! The biggest problem with black holes is the singularity problem. This singularity denies application of the existing laws of physics and it is unnatural for a certain substantial object to have infinite density of energy...

how far will the e-elt be able to see

I am looking at getting a new telescope this is the one I am looking at getting is a SkyWatcher HERITAGE 5" 130mm Table Top Telescope from Jacobs Digital is this telescope any good? I am 13 years old and have a budget of 550 New Zealand dollars.

On December 20th at 6:30 PM, ET, NASA Solar System Ambassador & Hamptons Observatory's Senior Educator, William Francis Taylor, MSc, will present a free, hybrid lecture, “Winter Stargazing: A Journey Through the Night Sky.” The talk will be held at the South Fork Natural History Museum...

On November 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM, ET, Hamptons Observatory and Suffolk County Community College will co-host a free, virtual lecture entitled “Living With A Star: Science that Matters to People.” NASA’s Living With A Star program involves heliophysics and targets specific aspects of the Sun-Earth...

What is preventing us from sending numerous tiny probes/orbiters into interstellar space, do we still lack the technology or courage? Since through gravity assist alone we can increase the speed of spacecrafts, why don't we send out many in various directions, with all the necessary instruments...

We all should know Kepler 425-b and Gliese 581d, and many more, but would do you think would be the best candidate? Planet? Moon? What do you think? My personal opinion is on Gliese 581 g.

Hello Five minutes ago I was staring at the stars with some binoculars and saw what I thought it was a meteorite, but it continued going down the galaxy untill I lost it. It took about 30 seconds to go from my 90º top vertical vision to a 0º horizontal (I was laying on the ground, looking up)...

aerith.net says it could reach 2nd magnitude in July and Wikipedia says that it will reach perihelion on July 3rd and expected to be visible to the naked eye. Besides that and the theskylive.com page, I can't find anything else.

Hi, I'm a high school teacher in IT and I'm interested in astronomy as a hobby. I make fun astronomy games in my spare time and I thought it would be appropriate to present them in this forum. Here is example for fun puzzle to sort the moons of Uranus :) Interactive Uranus moons

In 1514 A.D Nicolaus Copernicus a polish astronomer postulated the theory, states that the Earth spins on its axis and revolves around the Sun. Since then it is a scientifically proved and well-known fact. later scientists were able to calculate that the Earth spins at a speed of about 1,000...

Most of us are aware of the black hole, what does it mean and what exactly it does and most recently scientists have revealed the first-ever image of a black hole. But have you ever thought is there any other type of structure similar to a black hole. Exactly, black hole is not the only type of...

Science attempts to explain the universe using logical and tested hypotheses. But even though we’ve been studying the universe and everything in it for centuries, we still don’t know everything. We probably never will! Some of the strangest and most interesting mysteries that still plague the...