Category: Astronomy
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CSIRO Parkes radio telescope added to National Heritage List – CSIRO
The iconic Parkes radio telescope, otherwise known as The Dish, has been officially recognised for its contribution to Australian astronomy and humankind’s understanding of the Universe with its addition to the National Heritage List. Source: www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/CSIRO-Parkes-radio-telescope-added-to-National-Heritage-List
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“Stellar archaeology” reveals remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind”
“Stellar archaeology” reveals remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind” A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity 2 billion years ago, when Earth’s…
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NASA Jupiter probe images huge moon Ganymede like never before
NASA Jupiter probe images huge moon Ganymede like never before (photos) NASA’s Juno Jupiter probe has captured unprecedented views of the largest moon in the solar system. During a close flyby of Jupiter on Dec. 26, 2019, Juno mapped the north polar regions of the icy satellite Ganymede in infrared light, something no…
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Comprehensive Systems Test
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Comprehensive Systems Test Are we getting close to the launch of the James Webb Space telescopes? Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been assembled into its final form, testing teams seized the unique opportunity to perform a critical software and electrical analysis on the entire…
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Neowise Comet C/2020 F3 Can Be Seen With Naked Eye
Neowise Comet C/2020 F3 Can Be Seen With Naked Eye Just in time as a follow up from our recent podcast on comets – here’s a new one! Neowise comet can be seen from Earth without a telescope A rare celestial sight for people across the world at the moment – a comet…
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Australian Space Agency funds locally-designed space suits
Australian Space Agency funds locally-designed space suits Congratulations to Mars Society Australia member, Dr James Waldie for receiving funding from the Australia Space Agency to help develop the next generation of space suits in a major international collaboration involving NASA and the European Space Agency. The $844,000 Australian Space Agency grant will develop three types…
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eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe
eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe | Astronomy | Sci-News.com A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over one million objects, about half of which are new to astronomers. It shows the structure of hot gas in the Milky Way itself, and the…
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ESOblog: Twinkle, twinkle little star, but not on our watch
ESOblog: Twinkle, twinkle little star, but not on our watch Great blog article from the ESO on adaptive optics – mechanical systems to deform the shape of a mirror to take into account disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere. The same sort of disturbances that cause stars to “twinkle”. Astronomers have turned to a method…
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New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment
New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we’d see from Earth. Source: www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment
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James Webb Space Telescope will “absolutely” not launch in March
On Wednesday, the chief of NASA’s science programs said the James Webb Space Telescope will not meet its current schedule of launching in March 2021. Looks like the James Webb Space Telescope is still some time away. Launch in 20210? Who knows! “This team has stayed on its toes and pushed this telescope forward.”…
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Preparations complete in Western Australia for construction of world’s largest telescope – ICRAR
Preparations complete in Western Australia for construction of world’s largest telescope – ICRAR Following seven years of design and prototyping work, the Curtin University node of ICRAR has completed its preparations for the construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Western Australia. Source: www.icrar.org/ready-set-skalow/
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Astronomers record signal coming from deep space every 157 days
“This exciting discovery highlights how little we know about the origin of fast radio bursts]” Source: fturism.com/astronomers-record-signal-coming-space-every-157-days
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Hubble Has Looked Back in Time as Far as It Can And Still Can’t Find The First Stars
Hubble Has Looked Back in Time as Far as It Can And Still Can’t Find The First Stars Astronomers don’t know exactly when the first stars formed in the Universe because they haven’t been observed yet. And now, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest the first stars and galaxies may have formed…
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Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun The discovery of the exoplanet KOI-456.04 orbiting the star Kepler-160 suggests we should more aggressively look for habitable planets around sun-like stars. Source: www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/05/1002831/kepler-160-koi-456-04-earth-sun-exoplanet-habitable/