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Catching Sunlight: A TEDx Talk by DIY Solar Photographer Alan Friedman

January 7, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Video poster frame shows Alan Friedman’s 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope setup — nicknamed “Little Big Man” — on an Astro-Physics 900 equatorial mount. We’ve featured several beautiful images of the Sun here on Universe Today, captured by the talented Alan Friedman [...]

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Amazing Video of a Lunar Occultation

December 28, 2012

Captured on camera by astrophotographer Rafael Defavari from his location in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, this video shows the Moon passing in front of Jupiter during an occultation event on December 25, 2012. Nice work! The video plays at 5x actual speed. Although Jupiter appeared to be “right next to” the Moon on Christmas [...]

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One of the Largest Astronomical Images Ever Made

December 18, 2012

The northern portion of the Cygnus Loop, as seen in an enormous new panorama from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and WIYN partners Looking for a stunning new desktop image to wrap up the year? Try this: it’s an amazing panorama of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant located 1,500 light-years away in the constellation [...]

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The Man Who Shoots Space: Interview with Thierry Legault

November 27, 2012

We’ve written many articles to share the incredible astrophotography of Thierry Legault, and have also interviewed him extensively about his work. If you’ve enjoyed his imagery and stories, you’ll appreciate this new video interview from VICE which shows Legault at work, and allows him to tell his story in his own words. Remove this ad

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A Branching “Tree” of Solar Plasma

November 24, 2012

Hydrogen-alpha photo of the Sun by Alan Friedman An enormous tree-shaped prominence spreads its “branches” tens of thousands of miles above the Sun’s photosphere in this image, a section of a photo acquired in hydrogen alpha (Ha) by Alan Friedman last week from his backyard in Buffalo, NY. Writes Alan on his blog, “gotta love [...]

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