In last week's BINTEL newsletter (you can read it here), I mentioned the Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter. This is a broad band light pollution filter that cuts out a very narrow range light from street lights and lamps while letting...
30th Jan 2023 - Today, NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope released a set of stunning images of near and mid-infrared portraits of 19 face-on spiral galaxies. These show details in the structure in the spiral arms of these galaxies in...
Multiple nations and private space companies are racing to the Moon. 24th Jan 2024 - NASA's Peregrine Lunar lander launched a few weeks ago suffered a major failure and crashed landed back on Earth. Japan's SLIM lander successfully performed a...
NASA has finally pried the lid off a precious sample of pristine material dating back to the early history of the Solar System, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from the asteroid Bennu. 19th Jan 2024: We've all been there. You...
10th Jan 2024: Some amazing new products launch in recent days at the CES event in the USA - and they'll be arriving at BINTEL in the near future! Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory The world's leading telescope maker, Celestron,...
Space Launches 2024 is looking like a busy year on the launch front! 2024 kicks off with the launch on January 8 of the NASA Peregrine Mission 1 (TO2-AB) which will head to the Moon to investigate Lunar geology, magnetic field...
Here's some of our favourite images and happenings over the last 12 months. The Sun puts on a show The Sun's been in the news globally in 2023. First of all, there was a rare hybrid total Solar Eclipse visible...
The arc of the Milky Way above our heads at night has been seen and recorded for as long as humans have existed. We see the Milky Way in visible light, but much else can be revealed beyond this. Astronomers...
A team of Astronomers from across the globe, The NANOGrav collaboration, this week announced they'd observed a faint sign of a background signal or "hum" of Gravitational Waves that's spread through the Universe. What's a Gravitational Wave? Gravitational Waves are...
