Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO’s Very Large Telescope … More
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New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features
An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s gravity field, and it … More
Asterisms for Winter Nights
Asterisms appeal to our playful side but also serve as key waypoints in the sky for identifying fainter stars and … More
First light for future black hole probe
Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO’s Very Large Telescope … More
Twitter reports that Gravitational Waves have been found and LIGO Observatory researchers are writing a paper
Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State university, tweeted that he had received independent confirmation of a rumour that has … More
The Science of Powerball (Synopsis)
“I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.” –Fran Lebowitz … More
Following Up KIC 8462852
As I sat down to write yesterday morning, I realized there was a natural segue between the 1977 ‘Wow!’ signal, … More
Reflections on the 1970s
The 1970s are sometimes ignored by astronomers, like this beautiful grouping of reflection nebulae in Orion – NGC 1977, NGC … More
Double Star Detected By New Black Hole Probe | Video
Known simply as ‘Gravity’, this multi-mode interferometer combines light from several telescopes to enable observations simulating a single extremely large … More
Astronomers detect ultra-weak magnetic fields in two metallic-line stars
(Phys.org)—A team of astronomers led by Aurore Blazère of the Paris Observatory has discovered ultra-weak magnetic fields in metallic-line stars … More
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