Messier 66 in Leo: a colour view
Looking at the sky and its depths, one is impressed by the unmatched beauty she/he meets up there. But some objects “shines” with their special charm. Among them, Messier 66. Placed at about 35...
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M 5 – Ser
Among the most spectacular deep sky objects there are globular clusters. These very crowded families of stars (reaching sometime the number of one million!) live in the so called galactic halo: a spherical region...
Comet C/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS in the morning: 16 Apr. 2013
Comet Pan-STARRS peaked in brightness last March and is now constantly fading, while on its route back in the outer Solar System. At that time visible soon after the sunset, it is now circumpolar for many...
Comet C/2012 S1 Ison: 14 Apr. 2013 image
Comet C/2012 S1 “Ison” is slowly approaching the Sun and the world is waiting for its potentially bright apparition late this year. The Virtual Telescope Project continues to monitor it The image above...
Online Star Party – 14 April 2013
Last 14 April, the Virtual Telescope hosted an online star party, organized by the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC). It was also opened to all those willing to join it online. While the telescope...
NGC 5866: Messier 102?
As soon as everyone starts learning about the sky and its most beautiful objects, she/he learn about the Messier catalogue. This very famous list includes more than one hundred deep sky gems including galaxies,...
Partial Lunar Eclipse: 25 April 2013
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Northern Virginia Astronomy Club and Virtual Telescope STAR PARTY!: 14 April 2013
** To join the LIVE event, click here! ** On 14 April, starting at 23:15 UT, the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC) will offer you a unique chance to explore cosmic landscapes from the...
“Walking on the Moon”: 18 Apr. 2013, 19:00 UT
*** Join it LIVE here! *** During Global Astronomy Month (GAM2013, April 2013) you can reach the Moon from home! Just join our remote, online lunar observing session and have fun with plenty of...
Quasar APM 08279+5255: a low-res spectrum and redshift
After the very positive results with quasar 3C 273, we tried to get a spectrum of APM 08279+5255. This quasar is shining at mag. 15.2 and is located at a distance of 12 billions...
![Quasar [HB89] 1758+388](https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/hb89_18mar2010-520x245.jpg?x34136)
Once upon a time in a quasar far, far away…
Few things are able to capture the imagination of stargazers as the idea of distance of a cosmic object. While looking at that likely pale spot of light, so hard to see with their...
Possible supernova PSN J18250198+2731537 in NGC 6632 (3 Apr. 2013)
The Virtual Telescope imaged the supernova candidate PSN J18250198+2731537 in NGC 6632, originally reported on 24 mar. 2013 by Z. Jin and X. Gao, China and still spectroscopically unconfirmed. The hosing galaxy is peculiar as it...
The exploding Universe: the realm of Supernovae – online event!
To join the LIVE event click here !!! Always at the first place in the world sharing the wonders of the Universe, with online, free observing sessions, the Virtual Telescope Project is very proud...
Supernova SN 2013aj in NGC 5339: 4 Apr. 2013
Supernova SN 2013aj was discovered on 3 mar. 2013 in the nice, face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 5339, located at about 120 millions of light years from us. We observed it about one month...
