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...
NASA this week announced that further study of data received from the Cassini mission to Saturn has revealed the presence of phosphorous on its moon, Enceladus. Hi resolution image of Enceladus showing its "tiger stripes" (via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) Despite...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory reached a major construction recently. The primary instrument at this revolutionary facility is called the Simonyi Survey Telescope. The massive telescope mount and surrounding structure is ready to be fitted with a "dummy" full size...
NEAF is back for 2023! The world's largest telescope and astro equipment expo back for the first in-person event since the pandemic. BINTEL is attending NEAF (Northeast Astronomy Forum and Space Expo) in the USA and will be reporting from...
