Astronomy

Cosmicflows-4, a new catalogue of 56,000 galaxies, is the largest ever compilation of distances between the collections of stars, dust, and gas across the universe. Astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy used eight different methods to measure the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. The catalogue is also be...

The study was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) telescope has discovered more water on the Moon's surface. The fresh findings of water have been made in the Southern Hemisphere of the Moon. The team have discovered water in the Moretus Crater region, which is close to the Moon's Clavius Crater, where the original findings were made.

The 15th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2022 was held in Georgia, from August 14 to 21, 2022.

Scientists are using data sonification, the process of converting data into sound, to understand space at a deeper level. Its use as a tool in science is still in its early stages, but astronomy groups are leading the way. A new paper, published in Nature Astronomy, discusses the current state of data sonification in astronomy and other fields, and...

Hawaii has introduced legislation to protect the sacred Mauna Kea summit future generations that also says science must be balanced with culture and the environment. The mountain that is sacred to Native Hawaiians is also one of the finest places in the world to study the night sky. A new authority to govern the use of the land may offer a first-in...

This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.

Data received from the US space agency NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed some fascinating features of a star, which was likely ejected from its birthplace due to a powerful explosion. The star, Zeta Ophiuchi, has a complicated past and is located some 440 light-years from Earth.

The Gemini South telescope, one of the world’s most powerful optical-Infrared telescopes located in Chile, has captured its first light image of a chemically complex star. The telescope was equipped with the GHOST, or the Gemini High-Resolution Optical SpecTrograph, allowing it to capture detailed images of celestial bodies.

In a new study, published in Science, researchers have detected a cosmic ray offshoot called a neutrino or ghost particles. These parties are considered so evasive that they interact with anything but as they travel, they don't come in contact with the atoms. Neutrinos are like small particles messengers that have spawned a new field of astronomy c...

NASA released never-seen-before images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope today, heralding a new era of astronomy as the images take us back to early universe, almost 13 billion years ago.

A new study from physicists suggests that tiny grains of space dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, making them appear rough. The study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, may help scientists understand how asteroids bring them dangerously close to Earth.

A meteor which lit up the night sky in the Chilean capital Santiago has been caught on camera. The inhabitants of the city heard the sound of the meteor crossing the atmosphere as if it were a burst of thunder.

Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe have constructed simulations that directly mimic the whole life cycle of some of the greatest collections of galaxies discovered 11 billion years ago in the distant universe. Most are simply statistically constructed to resemble the real world. Constrained cosmologi...

Astronomers made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence. The 3C 273 galaxy is a quasar, the nucleus of a galaxy believed to house a massive black hole at its centre.

Cosmicflows-4, a new catalogue of 56,000 galaxies, is the largest ever compilation of distances between the collections of stars, dust, and gas across the universe. Astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy used eight different methods to measure the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. The catalogue is also be...

The study was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) telescope has discovered more water on the Moon's surface. The fresh findings of water have been made in the Southern Hemisphere of the Moon. The team have discovered water in the Moretus Crater region, which is close to the Moon's Clavius Crater, where the original findings were made.

The 15th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2022 was held in Georgia, from August 14 to 21, 2022.

Scientists are using data sonification, the process of converting data into sound, to understand space at a deeper level. Its use as a tool in science is still in its early stages, but astronomy groups are leading the way. A new paper, published in Nature Astronomy, discusses the current state of data sonification in astronomy and other fields, and...

Hawaii has introduced legislation to protect the sacred Mauna Kea summit future generations that also says science must be balanced with culture and the environment. The mountain that is sacred to Native Hawaiians is also one of the finest places in the world to study the night sky. A new authority to govern the use of the land may offer a first-in...

This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.

Data received from the US space agency NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed some fascinating features of a star, which was likely ejected from its birthplace due to a powerful explosion. The star, Zeta Ophiuchi, has a complicated past and is located some 440 light-years from Earth.

The Gemini South telescope, one of the world’s most powerful optical-Infrared telescopes located in Chile, has captured its first light image of a chemically complex star. The telescope was equipped with the GHOST, or the Gemini High-Resolution Optical SpecTrograph, allowing it to capture detailed images of celestial bodies.

In a new study, published in Science, researchers have detected a cosmic ray offshoot called a neutrino or ghost particles. These parties are considered so evasive that they interact with anything but as they travel, they don't come in contact with the atoms. Neutrinos are like small particles messengers that have spawned a new field of astronomy c...

NASA released never-seen-before images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope today, heralding a new era of astronomy as the images take us back to early universe, almost 13 billion years ago.

A new study from physicists suggests that tiny grains of space dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, making them appear rough. The study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, may help scientists understand how asteroids bring them dangerously close to Earth.

A meteor which lit up the night sky in the Chilean capital Santiago has been caught on camera. The inhabitants of the city heard the sound of the meteor crossing the atmosphere as if it were a burst of thunder.

Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe have constructed simulations that directly mimic the whole life cycle of some of the greatest collections of galaxies discovered 11 billion years ago in the distant universe. Most are simply statistically constructed to resemble the real world. Constrained cosmologi...

Astronomers made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence. The 3C 273 galaxy is a quasar, the nucleus of a galaxy believed to house a massive black hole at its centre.