Partially Eclipsed Blue Moon for New Year's Eve

A Blue Moon in astronomical terms is where a Full Moon occurs twice within the same month.

On News Year Eve this Blue Moon will also appear slightly red in Eastern Longitudes due to a partial Eclipse, which means the Earth will come between the Sun and Moon blocking off some of the sunlight getting to the Moon, making it appear dimmer and slightly red.

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Naked Quasars and their Galaxy forming Ray Guns

The long debate over what forms first; a Black Hole or a Galaxy, maybe closer to being resolved following observations of a Quasar that has no host Galaxy.  Jets emanating from the Quasar can be seen firing out to a neighbouring Galaxy suggesting they are stimulating stellar formation. http://j.mp/7ZIAxk

Star Blast from the Past

The oldest object so far detected in the Universe was recently observed by Astronomers following a gamma-ray burst that was picked up by NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Telescope.  The after-glow was also observed by Leicester University's Infra-Red telescope in Hawaii.  The object responsible for the explosion was a progenitor star which has since been designated GRB 090423 and is estimated to have exploded 13 billion years ago, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang occurred. http://j.mp/sDR2H

Skywatchers guide to the Geminids meteor shower which will be the focus of #Meteorwatch on 12th December 2009 http://j.mp/1Qo9Bm

Moonwatch and Meteorwatch Coming Soon to a Garden Shed Near You

From a well equipped Garden Shed in England, the Newbury Astronomical Society in collaboration with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 will be holding a twitter Moonwatch on the 26/27th October 2009 and a twitter Meteorwatch for the Germinids Meteor Shower on the 12th December 2009.

ESA Herschel infrared telescope will investigate the birth and life cycle of Stars and Galaxies

Herschel which is a European Space Agency space observatory, will be the most powerful infrared telescope flown in space so far. Herschel's mission is to study the origin and evolution of stars and galaxies to help us understand how the Universe came to be what it is today.

ESA Planck overview of its mission to study Cosmic Microwave radiation leftover from the Big Bang

ESA's Planck mission is the first European space mission to study the Cosmic Microwave background which is the relic radiation from the Big Bang. Planck will provide the sharpest picture ever obtained of the young Universe and will help to describe its birth and evolution.

Charlie Bolden, planetary systems and eclipsing binary Epsilon Aurigae on Astrocast TV for August 09

In the August 2009 edition of Astrocast TV: Charlie Bolden becomes NASA's new administrator and faces the planned ending of Space Shuttle program and technical problems and delays with the Constellation program.

Current understanding of how planetary systems following Star formation is explained and compared to the formation of our own Solar System, plus amateur astronomers are being invited to take part in observing the upcoming eclipsing Binary Epsilon Aurigue.

Apollo milestones, star birth and rising sea levels explained on July 09 edition of Astrocast TV

Greg Redfern runs through the milestones of the Apollo program to mark the 40th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. Carolyn Collins Petersen explains how Stars are born, Bente Lilja Bye explains how we observe the rising sea level due to global warming. Tavi Greiner focuses on the Moon for the night sky in July.

Catch up with Astronomy Science News from Astrocast TV for June 09

This June edition of Astrocast includes an overview of NASA LRO/LCROSS mission to the Moon, space observation of Seismic activity, interaction and collision of Galaxies, STS125 Space Shuttle mission to service Hubble Space Telescope, explanation of how Spectrographs analyse the chemical composition of objects by examining their light, finding & observing the Spica variable binary system and finally observing International Space Station & Iridium Satellite flares

Astrocast.TV is a public educational outreach internet broadcast hosted by the following volunteers:
Greg Redfern, Dr Harold Geller, Bente Lilja Bye, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Tavi Greiner