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Slooh is an online astronomy platform with live-views and telescope rental for a fee. [4] Observations come from a global network of telescopes located in places including Spain and Chile. [4] The name Slooh comes from the word "slew" to indicate the movement of a telescope, modified with "ooh" to express pleasure and surprise.
Herschel Space Observatory: 2009 Earth–Sun L2 point: Hidden Valley Observatory: 1960s Rapid City, South Dakota, US Hida Observatory, Kyoto University [5] 1968 Takayama, Gifu, Japan Heyden Observatory, Georgetown University: 1844 Washington, D.C., US High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory: 2015 Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico High Energy ...
The object itself was detected in ESO images dating back to 1980, but its identification as a quasar occurred only several decades later. [2]An automated analysis of 2022 data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite did not confirm J0529-4351 as too bright to be a quasar, and suggested it was a 16th magnitude star with a 99.98% probability.
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The Sun sets behind the hill (left) before re-emerging (right) to set again in the valley. A double sunset is a rare astro-geographical phenomenon, in which the Sun appears to set twice in the same evening from a specific viewing-point.
OJ 287 is a BL Lac object 4 billion light-years from Earth that has produced quasi-periodic optical outbursts going back approximately 120 years, as first apparent on photographic plates from 1891.
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...
The 2014 approach was broadcast live (YouTube archive [7]) on the Internet at 09:00 pm EST (02:00 UTC), 18 February 2014, by the Slooh community observatory. [3] [8] [9] Slooh's observatory on Mount Teide in Spain's Canary Islands was iced over at the time, so images from the Slooh observatory in Dubai were used to attempt detection of the asteroid.