The closest black hole to earth has been found at a mere 1600 light years away, being approximately three times closer than the previous candidate, an X-ray binary in the Monoceros constellation.

Understanding why we use calibration frames and how to take them.

This is a summary of the different astronomical catalogs

Today is podium day!

On the 16th of October, 2021, NASA launched the Lucy Spacecraft for its twelve-year mission to explore a total of 8 targets, one within the asteroid belt, and 7 Trojan asteroids.

Today we are announcing the new contests for November 2022!

It has been 4 years since NASA’s InSight mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of mars, with the aim to detect and characterise marsquakes.

Winter is coming; in some places, winter is already be here.  For those of you with your own equipment like me, you may be working on your main imaging targets for the winter season.  If you are and you’re in th

On the 26th of October 2022, Pavel Koupra et al published a paper discussing some unusual observations made late last year in regards to the open cluster Hyades and NGC 752.

A team of astronomers led by Victor Doroshenko at the University of Tubingen, Germany have measured the lightest neutron star we’ve ever seen… or have they?

A summary of how to download publicly released JWST data to process

The research of exoplanet atmospheres primarily focuses on bodies known as ultra-hot Jupiters. As the name suggests, these are very large and very hot exoplanets.