Resources, papers and information (updated) The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion’s Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. It is 1,344 ± 20 light-years (412.1 ± 6.1 pc) away and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 …
schiaparelli_1879.jpg (3737×2160) (elte.hu) Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals – The Public Domain Review
PHOTOGRAPHS OF (MODELS OF) THE MOON (1874) I recently viewed some lunar surface photographs that were taken in 1874, almost 100 years before the Apollo Program did the same. Sensing foul play at best or conspiracy at worst, I took great joy in reading up about James Nasmyth’s lunar observations, sketched from the eyepiece and …
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For image sources and more detail click here The stylised depictions of the comets echo the fantastical bent of the text — “Veru” as a lance, “Domina capillorum” as burning wheel, “Rosa” with beaming face, and “Scutella” as some kind of heavenly Asclepius’s staff. In the landscapes below which the comet’s stream we see some …
Puppis Puppis is the stern of what was once the much larger constellation of The Argo – the ship Jason sailed in Greek mythology. The French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided up the original constellation (as documented in Ptolomy’s Amalgest) in 1752 to the parts of the ship – the keel – Carina, the …
