Star stacking is a process that will result in an image with sharper stars and less noise. Rather than taking a single shot of the Milky Way, you take a bunch of identical, sequential Milky Ways shots and combine them into a single image with a software program. With my memory, I reall...
After all, we live inside the Milky Way and working out what it looks like or mapping it from the inside is not the easiest of missions. It’s one thing to map the visible matter but mapping the dark matter is even harder. Challenges aside, a team of astronomers think they have ...
In 1955 the first detailed attempt to interpret the shape of the general van Rhijn luminosity function was made by the Austrian-born American astronomerEdwin E. Salpeter, who pointed out that the change in slope of this function nearMV= +3.5 is most likely the result of the depletion of the...
Adobe Camera RAW(found within Adobe Photoshop) is one of my favorite tools for processing Milky Way Photography images, and it can handle everything from noise reduction to specific color adjustments (color mixer). This tool is one of the best ways to pre-process your Milky Way photos before...
We can also add that our solution predicts at least two ways of obtaining galaxies without DM, if the galaxy is isolated (far from clusters) or if a specific configuration orients the \(\vec {K_{1\_Cl}}\) of the neighboring clusters such that their addition cancels out. A second ...
the ages of all those so far measured range from 11 billion to 13 billion years. They are the oldest objects in the Galaxy and so must have been among the first formed. That this was the case is also indicated by the fact that the globular clusters tend to have much smaller amounts ...
If you can, get to your site in the daytime as you will likely want to scout the area for the best angles. Good Milky Way images tend to make use of the landscape in creative ways, so look for interesting and prominent natural features like mountains, boulders or rock shapes. ...
If I’ve madeThe Milky Waysound rather dry and cerebral, then I haven’t misrepresented it. It’s a film that is in many ways easier to admire than to love. For an alleged satire, it has only a couple of good laughs; it’s only slightly funnier than the New Testament. It’s eru...
The universe flows, carrying with it milky ways and worlds, Gondwanas and Eurasias, inconsistent visions and clumsy systems. But the good conceptual models, these serena templa of intelligence on which several masters have worked, never disappear entirely. They are the great legacy of the past....
Astronomer Made the First Detailed Map of the Milky Way Astronomer Helped Chart the Milky WayLanger, Emily