Happy New Year everybody! To begin the year we’re doing something a little different. This month’s image is taken by Afsheen Rane, an amateur astronomer at University of Toronto.
Photographed is the Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42) which is around 1300 light years away from Earth.
We know that it is extremely difficult for us to send vehicles to outer space, especially if we are to send a human in it. So what does it really take for us to travel beyond our planet and solar system and to survive under “zero-gravity”? Join us in our 15th Annual Symposium as Dr.…
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Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the emission region cataloged as NGC 7000. To the right, just off the North America Nebula’s east…
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Hello everyone, Sadly, the Star Talk which was originally planned for 7:10-8:00 tonight is cancelled because Professor Jonathan Kelly is sick and cannot make it to the event. HOWEVER, for those who are interested, we will still be holding the telescope observing session from 8:00-9:00pm and we will be meeting in the lobby of McLennan…
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This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor’s Helmet.
