Elon Musk’s new satellite megaconstellation will make it harder to study the sky with ground-based telescopes.
Source: www.cnet.com/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-dazzle-but-pose-big-questions-for-astronomers/
Astronomers have found dozens of surprisingly massive black holes far from the centers of their host dwarf galaxies.
Source: www.sciencenews.org/article/big-black-holes-can-settle-outskirts-small-galaxies
50 Years Ago: Apollo 10 Clears the Way for the first Moon Landing
Source: www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-10-clears-the-way-for-the-first-moon-landing
Montage is a toolkit for assembling Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) images into custom mosaics. Key features for end users are:
Source: montage.ipac.caltech.edu/
Does the Orion Nebula Cluster actually include three distinct stellar populations? Or is it all just a bunch of unresolved binaries and triple systems?
Source: astrobites.org/2019/05/24/mysteries-of-the-orion-nebula-cluster/
An ambitious new study using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows that ancient galaxies were brighter than scientists anticipated and that their light may have changed the universe.