Monthly Archives: March 2012

From Hubble: a grand new view of M9

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9 (M9), a globular star cluster located close to the center of the galaxy. This ball of stars is too faint to see with the … Continue reading →

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Planets and moon(s) grace our evening sky

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

Tonight, and for the next couple of nights, Earth’s Moon joins this spring’s conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in our western evening sky. The clouds cleared just in time for the show and I stepped outdoors, tripod-mounted camera in hand, … Continue reading →

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Finding bubbles in the Milky Way

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

A team of volunteers from the general public has pored over observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 “bubbles” in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow the bubbles into surrounding gas … Continue reading →

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Deaths: Ray A. Paul

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

We are sorry to report the passing of Ray A. Paul, husband of past CAA president Lynn (Laux) Paul. We offer our condolences to Lynn and her family and friends. Ray was active in amateur astronomy in Cleveland and in … Continue reading →

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