SKYNIGHTLY

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New Index Ranks Dark Night Communities
Jun 20, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomical observatories are increasingly at risk due to the fast encroaching growth of communities and the commensurate output of light at night illuminating...
New atlas of light pollution
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
A new atlas of light pollution documents the degree to which the world is illuminated by artificial skyglow. In addition to being a scourge for astronomers, bri...
Grand Canyon National Park Receives Provisional International Dark Sky Park Status
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
The International Dark-Sky Association and the National Park Service are excited to announce that Grand Canyon National Park is now a Provisional IDA Internatio...
How and When to See Five Planets at Once
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
During the next two weeks, for the first time in more than a decade, you can see all five naked-eye planets - from Mercury to Saturn - together in the predawn s...
Canyonlands National Park Named International Dark Sky Park
Sep 01, 2015 (SPX)
The International Dark-Sky Association has granted Gold-Tier International Dark Sky Park status to Canyonlands National Park, an honor reserved for the darkest ...
IAU Signs Agreements for Five New Coordinating Offices of Astronomy
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) has established new coordinating offices in Armenia, Colombia, Jordan, Ni...
Charting the slow death of the Universe
Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)
The study, which is part of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) project, the largest multi-wavelength survey ever put together, involved many of the world's mos...
Stormy seas in Sagittarius
Aug 01, 2015 (ESA)
Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae - hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows th...
Florida Tech lightning research deepens understanding of sprite formation
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
A new study led by Florida Institute of Technology Professor Ningyu Liu has improved our understanding of a curious luminous phenomenon that happens 25 to 50 mi...
Amazing Sunset Sky Show
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
If you love stargazing, there's a date you need to mark on your calendar. It's June. That's right, the whole month! Throughout the month of June 2015, the two b...
Astronomers unveil the farthest galaxy
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy explorati...
IAU Launches Cosmic Light programme
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
Focused on limiting energy waste through the reduction of light pollution and highlighting the importance of the preservation of dark night skies, the Internati...
Glitter Cloud May Serve as Space Mirror
Apr 21, 2015 (JPL)
What does glitter have to do with finding stars and planets outside our solar system? Space telescopes may one day make use of glitter-like materials to help ta...
ALMA Sees Einstein Ring in Stunning Image of Lensed Galaxy
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered that a distant galaxy - seen from Earth with the aid of a gravitational lens - appears like a cosmic ring, thanks to the highest res...
Astronomers Upgrade Their Cosmic Light Bulbs
Mar 30, 2015 (JPL)
The brilliant explosions of dead stars have been used for years to illuminate the far-flung reaches of our cosmos. The explosions, called Type Ia supernovae, al...
Automation offers big solution to big data in astronomy
Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)
It's almost a rite of passage in physics and astronomy. Scientists spend years scrounging up money to build a fantastic new instrument. Then, when the long-awai...
Far from home: Wayward cluster is both tiny and distant
Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)
Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place. T...
The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger
Feb 01, 2015 (SPX)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking view of spiral galaxy NGC 7714. This galaxy has drifted too close to another nearby galaxy and th...
An Astro-archaeological find from the dawn of time
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists led by University of Birmingham asteroseismologists have discovered a solar system with 5 Earth-sized planets dating back to the dawn of the Galaxy. ...
A year on-station for Gaia
Jan 15, 2015 (ESA)
Time flies when you're mapping a billion stars! One year ago, Gaia performed its last major orbit insertion burn and was stable at 'L2' (see What's an ell-two ?...
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