Brilliant Vega _ Our tempestuous neighbour
The returning darkness to our evening sky of late summer is dominated by one very bright star. Vega, high overhead in the tiny constellation Lyra,
Brilliant Vega _ Our tempestuous neighbour Read More »
The returning darkness to our evening sky of late summer is dominated by one very bright star. Vega, high overhead in the tiny constellation Lyra,
Brilliant Vega _ Our tempestuous neighbour Read More »
Noctilucent clouds near Kakwa, Alberta Unless you’re dedicated enough to get up in the middle of the night with very good binoculars or a small
Noctilucent Clouds – a rare meteorological phenomena for northern observers Read More »
What the constellation Cancer lacks in bright stars, it makes up for with its special deep sky resident, the Beehive open star cluster, or M44
A Contrast in character—meet our neighbour, and maybe even a distant relative Read More »
Andromeda is the big daddy of galaxies amongst our Local Group of about 50 galaxies. At over 200,000 ly in diameter, Andromeda is more than twice the diameter of our Milky Way.
M31, The Andromeda Galaxy—a hungry “island universe” with its sights on us Read More »
These photos chronicle the Windy Arm fire that took place this past summer. Looking across Windy Arm, post-fire (first week of September) from the Skagway
Yukon See It Here: Jim Borisenko Read More »
In our northern sky is a prominent bright star that, with amazing precision, dramatically dims by a factor of more than three for about an hour, before returning to its normal brightness. A flirtatious cosmic wink from the distant realms of deep space perhaps?
Algol the demon – The exoneration of an eclipsing binary star Read More »
Messier 13 (M13), the best and brightest globular cluster gracing our northern sky, resides in the Hercules constellation and is a most-intriguing class of star cluster, so very different from all the open star clusters of our Milky Way galaxy.
In the realm of the globulars – Ancient companions of the Milky Way Read More »
One of my favourite star clusters resides high overhead in our winter sky. In fact, it is always in our sky, for our viewing pleasure,
The Double Cluster – Stellar beauties from a distant spiral arm Read More »
When a budding interest in astronomy is pursued with even a cursory investigation into the nature of our cosmos, one quickly comes to the realization
A Vast and awesome Universe – Understanding cosmic distance through analogy Read More »