Tag: galaxy
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Seeing the Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Today we are going to be looking at some galaxies, we’re going to be looking at some galaxies that are well placed to be seen at this particular time of the year. For this piece, we are looking at sky from the middle of May to late May, roughly from the 15th to 20th this…
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The Galactic Equator, The Ecliptic and Angular Measurment
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the galaxy, its equator, the ecliptic of our solar system and angles. As disparate as those topics sound, they do all flow together. We are going to begin by taking a look at our galaxy, the Milky Way. It does require dark skies, but just…
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Dark Matter and Modified Newtonian Dynamics: A Very Brief Introduction
Today, we are going to briefly talk about dark matter and dark energy and Modified Newtonian Dynamics. Unfortunately, these are not things that I can show. Then again, I never really show anything in these written pieces, they’re all tell, but even in the attached video I cannot show dark matter. Dark matter, if it…
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How the Sky Looks Using Binoculars: Galaxies, Nebulae, Planets and even Moons!
In most of my videos, I zoom in as far as is necessary to see whatever details I want to talk about. In real life, you are usually limited by the magnification of whatever instrument you are using, be it a telescope a binoculars. People don’t often associate binoculars with astronomy, instead binoculars normally get…
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Spiral Galaxies: You’re in One and How we Know
Today we are going to take another look at galaxies. We’ve looked at galaxies before, and you can take a look back through my archives for some examples, but thankfully they are a big topic, so there is plenty to talk about. We are going to be taking a look specifically at spiral galaxies like…
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Where you can See a Different Sky More Easily
Today, for this issue or installment, I decided to take a look at the sky from a couple of different locations and compare the kind of view that you can get. This is something that I regularly do as the sky does look from different places. Often, my focus is on comparing dark skies to…
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Globular Clusters and 100 Subscriber Q&A Announcement
Globular clusters are the main focus of this video, a type of deep sky object that I have mentioned in previous videos, but they haven’t had their own focused video just yet. These ball of stars can be light years across, but I am excited for a much smaller number, 100. I have just surpassed…
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Leo Rising and a Lot of Galaxies
For the latest video, we are taking a look at galaxies again! We had a brief look at galaxies in an earlier video, very generally, where as this time we are concentrating on galaxies that are visible at the moment. As the sky changes from month to month, new constellations come into the sky earlier…
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