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...
by admin | Mar 14, 2025 | astronomy, binary stars, Cosmos, News, radio pulses, space, Space News, The Conversation
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long period transients. These objects emit bright radio signals that repeat every few minutes to every few hours. We have found about a dozen examples, but we...
by admin | Feb 14, 2025 | contamination, Cosmos, News, Planets, research, scientists, space, Space News, The Conversation
In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. In 2017, in Trump’s previous term of office, he promised to “establish a foundation...
by admin | Jan 20, 2025 | ASKAP J1839-0756, Cosmos, News, radio pulses, space, Space News, The Conversation
When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind incredibly dense cores called neutron stars. Some of these remnants emit powerful radio beams from their magnetic poles. As the star spins, these beams...
by admin | Oct 19, 2024 | Cosmos, ESA, Nasa, News, space, Space News, Telescopes, The Conversation, Webb Telescope
In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes – both on Earth and in space – has been a key part of this process, and those that are due to start operating over the next two decades...
