the observers hunch

As I'm in Munich on a collaborative visit at the moment I haven't made it to the National Astronomy Meeting this year. As well as me...

This is a real hot off the press Friday Galaxy, the data for this was only taken last night, in Chile, by those very helpful people at the G...

I've decided to institute a new tradition of posting images of a favourite galaxy on a friday. For the first example I have decided to c...

Over at threesigmaresult.com I have started a revised and expanded version of my dark sector series of posts first seen here.

Welcome to my first post for threesigmaresult! I've chosen to redo a post that previously appeared on my other blog, theobservershunch ,...

Head over to Space.com for a story about the dark side of our well behaved galaxy's nature, its being throwing its weight around and gen...

The washingtonpost .com has a nice little article about the state of astronomy at the moment. Its fairly timely to me as I have just kicked ...

I've just come across a nice little site that gives an impression of the scales involved in astronomy. Its starts by showing the positi...

Science nowadays is all about the big, the biggest this, the largest that, all discovered using some humongous new instrument. Astronomy is...

Wow, check out this composite picture of the moon partially occulting Saturn. Even as an Astronomer my mental image just didn't have Sat...

On Friday we had the latest of the Durham Astronomy groups Friday Lunchtime Talks, these usually consist of two members of the group (which ...

High time for some real science I think, the South Pole Telescope has just seen first light. This telescope, located as the name suggests at...

CNN has an interesting article on the best paying professions in the US, well its interesting if you're in my line of work, here is the...

Yesterday I asked for some more examples of crank emails, this morning I found about 15 in my inbox, a big shout out to CMB for sending his...

Click for VERY Big. Thanks to the BadAstronomer I have found out about a cool new HST image from the Hubble Heritage site, what's even b...

I came across this cool bit of astronomy software the other day. There seems to be two versions about sky-map.org and wikisky.org . They se...

Here is an image that the ICCmofos had on their door a while back, showing distances to objects stretching from the Core of the Earth to t...

This is what ACS looks like on the ground... Disaster, the main instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope died on Saturday. The camera, the A...

I'm planning on periodically adding to the links section on the sidebar to the right, I'm not sure how often this will be, it all de...

According to this story from space.com the SDSS has found 8 more dwarf galaxies in the local group. Seven of which appear to be satellites ...