by admin | Jan 28, 2025 | astronomy, News, South Africa, space, Space News, telescope, The Conversation
You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so...
by admin | Jan 13, 2025 | astronomy, moon, Nasa, News, rockets, space, Space News, The Conversation
In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made headlines with the Chang’e 6...
by admin | Dec 23, 2024 | astronomy, News, space, Space News, Taurus, The Conversation
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists of known interstellar molecules in the hope that we might work out...
by admin | Dec 19, 2024 | astronomy, Nasa, News, space, Space News, stars
When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on social media, that may not be the case: According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just...
by admin | Sep 23, 2024 | asotronomers, asteroids, astronomy, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, one metre in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere near the Philippines later that day, officials announced. Nevertheless, it produced a spectacular...
by admin | Sep 15, 2024 | astronomy, Astrophysics, Galaxy, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Have you ever wanted to make a $150,000 gamble? If you’re right, you open a new window to the universe. But if you’re wrong, you’ve just wasted a lot of money and time. That is exactly what my team did when we pointed the Keck telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in...