“The only epoch in which standing stones are meaningfully aligned with the bright stars is c.2000 BC, with a spread of at most 200 years both before and after.”
Alexander Thom Star Dates
Placing The Shapes
“–if the seven dots on the Nebra Disc, aren’t the Pleiades – (and they really don’t look like them you know!), what are they “
The Sky Above You – April 2022
“Venus is brilliant in the morning sky through the month.”
Time by the Stars
” The Sun doesn’t rise or set, it shines all the time while the Earth turns under it; and your watch isn’t fast or slow, it’s just that you’re standing too far east or west.”
Beyond Cosmology
‘What is outside the Universe?’
Cosmology
Duncan Lunan looks at the origin of the Universe, and the different ways in which it may end.
Galaxies Part 2
” a huge, complex pattern which has been given the Hawaiian name ‘Laniakea’, hundreds of millions of light-years in extent”
The Sky Above You – March 2022
The Moon will be New on March 2nd, and Full on March 18th, near Spica in Virgo the following night.
Galaxies Part 1
Event horizon of M87 black hole, 6 billion solar masses. Read on to find out more from astronomy expert Duncan Lunan
Galaxy Collision: New #Hubble Image
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled an unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
