Astronomers working on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Visible and Infra-Red Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have today published the biggest ever dataset of infra-red images of the Milky Way. A few of the images captured by the ESO VISTA project. Full details about this composite can be found at https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2413a/ Importantly, capturing images using infra-red … Continue reading Mammoth effort to image our galaxy in infra-red
More than meets the eye
Optical illusions aren't part of the school science curriculum - but they should be. We tend to believe what we see, and a lot of what we know about science is based on visual observations, but we aren't normally taught to question the evidence of our own eyes. One of the classic puzzles of astronomy, … Continue reading More than meets the eye
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