31.03.10- S.E.T.I. Turns 10!

 
   Tired of waiting for E.T. to call? Late last year, the distributed computing program that started it all, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/, turned ten. One of the most scientifically ambitious programs run before bedtime, SETI@Home showed us that computers could do more than display flying toasters in their spare time.  In fact, word of the first SETI@Home way [...]

02.11.09:The Low-Down on LOFAR.

European radio astronomers at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) have recently opened a potentially new window on the universe with an exotic new instrument. Dubbed LOFAR, or the Low Frequency Array, this unique instrument will examine the sky at extremely low radio frequencies, with a low band of 30 to 78 MHz and [...]

Astro-Event of the Week: 19-25 August 2008; Spot M13, The Beehive Cluster!

As the Moon wanes from the evening night, thoughts here at Astroguyz turn towards the wonders of the deep sky.  
 
M13: The Beehive Cluster. (Credit: Digitized Sky Survey).
One of the finest sights in the northern hemisphere is M13, known informally as the Beehive Cluster  in the constellation Hercules.