Astronomy Biography #2: James South

 

 "South, James." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 12. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 551-552.Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 Dec. 2014.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_South

The Observatory of the Late Sir James South
   http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1870AReg....8..196.

APOD 2.6: Aurora Shimmer and a Meteor Flash

           Northern lights, or aurora borealis, shimmered in the skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway on  December 13, 2009. The picture also captures the flash of a fireball meteor from the Geminid Meteor Shower in December 2009, streaking past the handle of the big dipper. At the end of this week, the Geminid meteor shower will continue but be disrupted by the last quarter moon. 

APOD 2.5: The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud

The dark object to the right of the image looks like a seahorse, but it is actually a pillar of smokey dust about 20 light years long. the dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, in a star forming region near the expansive Tarantula Nebula. near the "neck" of the "seahorse" is NGC 2074.  The color image was taken in 2008 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in honor of Hubble's 100,000th trip around the Earth.