Cyprus Astronomy Organisation

Globular star clusters are huge spheres of tens of thousands of stars that orbit most galaxies.
They are among the oldest known stellar systems in the Universe and date back to near the beginning of galaxy growth and evolution. More than 150 are currently known to belong to our Milky Way Galaxy.

The end of a space mission never comes easy. After spending the past eight months attempting to make contact, NASA has formally announced the end of the Opportunity mission on Wednesday, February 13th. The team made last contact with the rover on June 10, 2018, prior to a planet-wide dust storm leading up to opposition last July.

About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light-years away from Earth. A few hundred years later, after the new star had long since faded from the sky, cosmic rays from the event finally reached Earth, slamming into our planet.

Using the supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s VLBA, astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from Earth.

The year 2019 is here. With it, we've been promised a splendid moment in astronomy. For years, the Event Horizon Telescope has been working to bring us the first ever telescopic photograph of the event horizon of a black hole.

Atoms-for-Peace is the curious name given to a pair of interacting and merging galaxies that lie around 220 million light years away in the constellation of Aquarius. It is also known as NGC 7252 and Arp 226 and is just bright enough to be seen by amateur astronomers as a very faint small fuzzy blob shining around 12,2 mag.