A galaxy 320 million light-years away has a surprisingly similar structure to the Milky Way, suggesting our galaxy isn’t as unique as it once seemed to astronomers.
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This Wednesday night, everywhere in Australia will have a box seat for a spectacular total eclipse of the Moon.
In the early morning of May 26, 2021, there will be a super blood-red lunar eclipse. The show will be spectacular and can all be explained by the orbits of the Earth and Moon.
Weather on other planets and moons can be much more extreme than on Earth.
It has only been in the past century that weather prediction on Earth has advanced enough to work two weeks in advance. Predicting space weather, however, is only reliable an hour in advance.
Astronomers just measured the largest flare ever from Proxima Centauri, humanity’s closest neighboring star. These flares could be bad news for life trying to develop on a planet orbiting the star.
April 26 is the first supermoon of the year.
Sea level is still rising, and when that lunar cycle starts upward again, it will mean double trouble for places like Miami.
Astronomy has been hailed as one area of science making moves to promote gender equity. But new modelling suggests targets are still not being met, and more effort is needed to nurture womens’ careers.
Uncle Segar is an expert on many things including the land, sea and sky. This knowledge is then captured in his artworks.
Publicly available data and collaborations between scientists have led to the discovery of a planet in a triple-star system.
The hunt for the space rock involved a few bits of sheep poo before the real meteorite was found.
The black hole is part of a binary star system within our Milky Way galaxy. It orbits a colossal supergiant companion star.
There are some great opportunities to see the planet travelling across the night skies.
A small add-on to existing gravitational wave detectors could reveal what happens to matter as it becomes a black hole, a process like the big bang in reverse.
Australian astronomers are part of a prize-winning team that was the first to pinpoint the location of a fast radio burst. But there is much we still don’t know about these mysterious bursts.
Researchers have found a way to speed up the search for dark matter using technology from quantum computing. By squeezing quantum noise, detectors can now look for axions twice as fast.
If you are a sci-fi junkie you’ve probably wondered what would happen if you were unlucky enough to fall into a black hole. How well you’d fare all depends on the type of black hole.
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Radio galaxies may be the oldest galaxy systems, providing clues to the evolution of galaxies.
Based on what we currently know about the density of giant radio galaxies in the sky, the probability of finding two of them in this region is extremely small.
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