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...

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...

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a view of the distant Universe, at a time before the influence of Dark Energy began to be felt, we think. I th...

In the previous post we saw how in certain circumstances it is possible to explain supposedly missing mass in terms of standard physics. I...

I am often asked what an astronomer does and what the main problems facing astronomy are today. The first question is easily answered, an as...