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Messier 30

Messier 30

Messier 30 may originate from one of Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, as it moves in a retrograde orbit through the galaxy’s inner halo. It was created more than 13 billion years ago. Like many other…


Bortle Scale International Dark Sky Association Buying Land Light Pollution COVID

Best Visible Objects In Light Polluted Skies

As it has been nearly year of observing from home in COVID-19 quarantine, it would be a great idea to provide some information on some objects that one can view from home throughout the year….


Drones Drone

Drones: To Mars And Beyond?

After talking with Jake Robins from the WeMartians Podcast to discuss the Mars 2020 mission, the idea of drones on other planets really caught our imagination and attention. Therefore, we spoke to Cristian B. Meza,…


Messier 29

Messier 29

Messier 29 is relatively small, occupying an area of 7 arc minutes in the sky, or a quarter the size of the full Moon. However, without the dust of the Milky Way obscuring the cluster,…


Messier 28

Messier 28

Messier 28 was the first globular cluster discovered to contain a milisecond pulsar, a pulsating, highly magnetized rotating neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation with a rotational period between 1 and 10 miliseconds….


Mars

Mars Missions Arrival Dates And Fast Facts

February 2021 is going to be an exciting time for Mars missions as there are 3 scientific missions that will be reaching the planet. With so many articles on the different landers, it makes sense…


Virgin Orbit

Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches Rocket Into Orbit

Unlike companies such as Blue Origin and SpaceX, Virgin Orbit has built their LauncherOne platform around enabling horizontal small satellite launch. This is important because it will allow for more access to space for cube…


M27 Nebula Nebulae

Messier 27 The Dumbbell Nebula

Spotted by Charles Messier in 1764, the Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27) was the first planetary nebula ever discovered. With the planet-like appearance through a small telescope, it would seem that this is a bit of…



Mars

Mars Missions Currently Operational

In preparation of the upcoming landings of the Mars missions launched in 2020, which are expected to arrive at the red planet in the 1st quarter of 2021, we are going to take a look…