by admin | Jun 16, 2025 | Galaxy, Milky Way, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbour. This merger – expected in about 5 billion years – has become a staple of astronomy documentaries, textbooks and popular... by admin | Jan 27, 2025 | Earth, Galaxy, Milky Way, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called... by admin | Dec 2, 2024 | Black holes, Galaxies, Galaxy, Little Red Dots, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Astronomers exploring the faraway universe with the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful telescope, have found a class of galaxies that challenges even the most skillful creatures in mimicry – like the mimic octopus. This creature can impersonate other... by admin | Nov 25, 2024 | Galaxy, Milky Way, News, Science, space, Space News, The Conversation
On Sunday, November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems: “Dr Hubbell Confirms... 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... by admin | Oct 22, 2023 | Galaxy, Nasa, News, radio signal, space, Space News, The Conversation
Every day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then off all across the sky. These “fast radio bursts” are invisible to the naked eye, but to a radio telescope many almost outshine everything else in the sky...