SKY-MAP.ORG / WIKISKY » images http://blog.wikisky.org project news and updates Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:49:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 For those who wants to dig deeper http://blog.wikisky.org/2011/01/26/for-those-who-wants-to-dig-deeper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-those-who-wants-to-dig-deeper http://blog.wikisky.org/2011/01/26/for-those-who-wants-to-dig-deeper/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:01:10 +0000 admin http://blog.wikisky.org/?p=452

WikiSky has a lot of information and images, but not as much as some professional astronomer’s tools. If you are really curious about some object you found on sky map and you want to trace it to the source, try NASA’s SkyView online tool. Well, it may be not that easy to navigate as WikiSky, but it is a great tool.

Check out the gallery of what SkyView’s users found there: http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/userimages/gallery-1.html. I saw there many familiar objects, including our famous “spaceships” and many other “suspicious objects”.

One good thing about all that “spaceships” story, is that many people raised they eyes to the sky, some curious ones did investigation and got some knowledge, some found out about all the beauty and mystery about astronomy. And for me, who loves astronomy and science in general, it is a good thing. After all it is one of the main reason we created and continue working on WikiSky project

]]> http://blog.wikisky.org/2011/01/26/for-those-who-wants-to-dig-deeper/feed/ 10 Supernova near NGC 5216? http://blog.wikisky.org/2010/07/02/supernova-near-ngc-5216/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supernova-near-ngc-5216 http://blog.wikisky.org/2010/07/02/supernova-near-ngc-5216/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:25:39 +0000 admin http://blog.wikisky.org/?p=215 Beautiful image of NGC 5216 on today’s astronomy picture of the day (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100702.html). I notice some new object at (13:32:39 62°42’52″). Does anyone know what is that? Supernova?



]]> http://blog.wikisky.org/2010/07/02/supernova-near-ngc-5216/feed/ 5 Hubble’s New View of Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel http://blog.wikisky.org/2009/11/06/hubbles-new-view-of-star-birth-in-m83-the-southern-pinwheel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hubbles-new-view-of-star-birth-in-m83-the-southern-pinwheel http://blog.wikisky.org/2009/11/06/hubbles-new-view-of-star-birth-in-m83-the-southern-pinwheel/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:21:36 +0000 admin http://blog.wikisky.org/?p=153


The spectacular new camera installed on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83.

Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way galaxy, especially in its nucleus. The sharp “eye” of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured hundreds of young star clusters, ancient swarms of globular star clusters, and hundreds of thousands of individual stars, mostly blue supergiants and red supergiants.

The image, taken in August 2009, provides a close-up view of the myriad stars near the galaxy’s core, the bright whitish region at far right.

WFC3′s broad wavelength range, from ultraviolet to near-infrared, reveals stars at different stages of evolution, allowing astronomers to dissect the galaxy’s star-formation history.

M83, located in the Southern Hemisphere, is often compared to M51, dubbed the Whirlpool galaxy, in the Northern Hemisphere. Located 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra, M83 is two times closer to Earth than M51.

Source: Hubble Site

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