On Friday morning (May 10), there was a partial solar eclipse eclipse beginning at 7.50 am and ending at 10.14 am. Mid-eclipse was at 8.57 am when 39% of the Sun's diameter was covered. At that time the Sun was 24 degrees above the eastern horizon.
Written by Aina Musaeva while on one of her Observing trips
Right now (late April to early may 2013) the night sky contains many beautiful stellar objects to look at with a telescope and naked eye. Gorgeous summer objects are still visible in the low western sky early in the evening with many winter ones just rising in the east later at night.
Written by Jason Drury
Currently under development, the SKA or Square Kilometre Array, will be the world's largest radio-interferometry based telescope, with its antennas having an effective collecting area of approximately one square kilometer.
An excellent collaboration of Physics and Biology took place in the Kickstart Demonstartor training.
By Tara Murphy
Earlier this week we saw the death of a high profile woman (Margaret Thatcher) interrupt the news cycle on an international scale, but last week a much more unlikely obituary caused a social media outcry.
Written by Ben Pope
A discussion of light, black holes and Gravity all leading up to a central discussion of why is it possible that light can get trapped in the gravitational pull of a black hole is light is supposed to be massless.