Zooming in on black holes is the main mission for the newly installed instrument GRAVITY at ESO’s Very Large Telescope…
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…
Asterisms for Winter Nights
Asterisms appeal to our playful side but also serve as key waypoints in the sky for identifying fainter stars and…
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…
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…
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…
Following Up KIC 8462852
As I sat down to write yesterday morning, I realized there was a natural segue between the 1977 ‘Wow!’ signal,…
Reflections on the 1970s
The 1970s are sometimes ignored by astronomers, like this beautiful grouping of reflection nebulae in Orion – NGC 1977, NGC…
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…
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…
Telescopically 