Telescopes & Astrophotography
Telescopes and mounts, astrophotography equipment and software, practical reviews, night-sky events and astronomy discoveries for amateur observers.
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New Crater
The surface of the Moon seems eternal. There’s no air or water to reshape it, and no plate tectonics to jiggle things around. But the Moon does change – sometimes in a hurry. Scientists recently discovered an impact crater that’s almost 750 feet in diameter. It had been gouged during the spring of 2024.
Vesta: October 12, 2026 — StarDate Online
The second-largest asteroid in the solar system is a puzzler. Most studies say it has the same layers as a planet, but that it’s not massive enough to pull itself into a fully rounded shape like a planet. But one study found that it’s not layered at all.
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