by admin | Jul 6, 2025 | astronomy, Comets, insterstellar objects, News, solar system, space, Space News, The Conversation
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025. The object’s potentially interstellar origins excited scientists across the globe, and the next morning, the European Space... by admin | Jun 30, 2025 | astronomy, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images with massive cameras attached to large telescopes. Just as you might have an endless library of digital photos... by admin | May 13, 2025 | astronomy, Nasa, News, space, Space News, space travel, spacecraft, The Conversation
When you put your hand out the window of a moving car, you feel a force pushing against you called drag. This force opposes a moving vehicle, and it’s part of the reason why your car naturally slows to a stop if you take your foot off the gas pedal. But drag doesn’t... by admin | May 5, 2025 | astronomy, News, Planets, space, Space News, stars, The Conversation, turbulent plasma
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood. The plasma structures we see are variations in density or turbulence, akin to... by admin | Apr 8, 2025 | astronomy, Cosmos, music, News, space, Space News, stars, The Conversation
The “music” of starquakes – enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many stars – can reveal far more information about the stars’ histories and inner workings than scientists thought. In new research published in... by admin | Mar 17, 2025 | astronomy, Cosmos, Moons, Nasa, News, Saturn, space, Space News, The Conversation
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of...