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amateur astrophotos

First Amateur Image of Another Solar System

November 25, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Amateur astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen from New Zealand shared an image with Universe Today, and it is perhaps the first image of another solar system taken by an amateur. The image above is Olsen’s image of the protoplanetary disc around Beta [...]

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Send Us Your Perseid Images!

August 12, 2011

This weekend should be the peak of the 2011 Perseid meteor shower. If you have any luck taking images of the event, we’d love to see them and share them with the world! To enable this, Universe Today has started a Flickr Group, where people can upload their astrophotos, which will make it easier for [...]

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Amateur Astronomer Images X37-B Space Plane in Orbit

May 28, 2010

Even since amateur astronomers picked up on the orbit of the Air Force’s secret X37-B space plane, others have been trying to capture images of the mini-space shuttle look-alike. So far, images have been just streaks or dots, but Universe Today reader Brent (a.k.a. HelloBozos) was actually able to image the plane in some detail. [...]

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