Radio Astronomy

Rare New Galaxy Reveals Black Hole Jet Secrets

[/caption] A newly discovered galaxy is aiding astronomers in the research into the early evolution of individual galaxies and galaxy…

10 years ago

Star Transforms Into A Diamond Planet

[/caption] "Remember when you were young... You shone like the sun." Four thousand light years away in the constellation of…

10 years ago

HARPS Tunes In On “Noisy” Planets

[/caption] Able to achieve an astounding precision of 0.97 m/s (3.5 km/h), with an effective precision of the order of…

10 years ago

Searching For Gravitational Waves

[/caption]Colliding neutron stars and black holes, supernova events, rotating neutron stars and other cataclysmic cosmic events… Einstein predicted they would…

10 years ago

The Russian Hubble?

[/caption] This is hardly breaking news, but there's a new Russian space telescope in town. With a name like an…

10 years ago

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Oh-My-God Particles

[/caption] Cosmic rays are really sub-atomic particles, being mainly protons (hydrogen nuclei) and occasionally helium or heavier atomic nuclei and…

10 years ago

LOFAR So Far… Digging Deep Into Our Universe

[/caption] The International LOFAR telescope is a Pan-European collaborative project led by ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. The radio…

10 years ago

Coming To A Theatre Near You… Extreme Neutron Stars!

[/caption] They came into existence violently... Born at the death of a massive star. They are composed almost entirely of…

10 years ago

Take a Look: Huge Asteroid to Fly By Earth in November

[/caption] A large space rock will pass close to Earth on November 8, 2011 and astronomers are anticipating the chance…

11 years ago

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Magnetic Fields

[/caption] The mention of cosmic-scale magnetic fields is still likely to met with an uncomfortable silence in some astronomical circles…

11 years ago