News Feeds

Do you ever scroll to the bottom of a web page?

If you scroll to the bottom of this one, you will find links to various blogs of astronomical interest:

European Space Agency
Astronomy Now magazine
Sky and Telescope magazine

Why not take a look?

A. G. M.

Last night's meeting was a wonderfully succinct Annual General Meeting. The main piece of news from the meeting is that the annual subscriptions remain unchanged at £13, £7 for concessions, and free for under 16s.

This was followed by a talk on upcoming astronomical events for 2012 by member Richard Sargent.

Websites worth a look

Hubblesite
Nine Planets

I hope to occasionally add further useful websites.

2012

Here's wishing everyone a happy new year. May all your nights be looking up!

Earth's Twin discovered?

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.

The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C.

The rest of the article, from the BBC, is here.