There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so for a long time.
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For the first time scientists have located the home galaxy of a one-off fast radio burst. Here’s how they did it – and what they learned about the galaxy.
It is always exciting to discover new planets beyond our Solar System. Now a planetary astrophysicist is using a star’s chemistry to predict which ones are likely to host giant planets.
The first 60 satellites from Elon Musk’s planned low orbit internet network have lit up the skies. But with more planned, astronomers say the satellites could ruin their work.
When you look up at the vastness of space you can see hundreds, thousands and even millions of years into the past.
The five planets visible to the naked eye since ancient times are putting on a dazzling display this month, in a night-sky dance along with the Moon.
Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary sciences in recent years.
About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that there’s compelling evidence to justify serious scientific study and that the skeptics should step aside – for the sake of humanity.
With a little bit of knowledge and a few pieces of equipment you too can look at the night sky and see it as a cosmologist does.
Astronomers have indirectly spotted some of the first stars in the universe by making their most distant detection of oxygen in a galaxy that existed just 500m years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day – so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
How long before we find a planet just like our own?
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase as Kepler retires.
The galaxies, stars and planets in our universe can look very different when you view them through equipment that sees beyond the visible light our eyes can see.
A precursor to the Square Kilometre Array- the MeerKAT telescope - is being built right now and remarkable progress has been made in the last 12 months.
Cosmologists are heading back to their chalkboards as the experiments designed to figure out what this unknown 84 percent of our universe actually is come up empty.
Until the recent observation of merging neutron stars, how the heaviest elements come to be was a mystery. But their fingerprints are all over this cosmic collision.
A LIGO team member describes how the detection of a gravitational wave from a new source – merging neutron stars – vaults astronomy into a new era of ‘multi-messenger’ observations.
We may need to re-think our models of Jupiter’s formation thanks to the first results from Juno probe orbiting the planet, and new observations from Earth.
Australia’s new partnership with the European Southern Observatory will give our astronomers access to much bigger telescopes.
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Professor of Astrophysics and Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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Professor in High Energy Astrophyics, University of Adelaide
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Director of the Abrams Planetarium, Michigan State University
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SKA Postdoc in Observational Cosmology, University of the Western Cape
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Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Professor of Astronomy, UMass Lowell
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Dean of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Doctoral Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Project Scientist at the Steward Observatory and Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
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Program Manager / Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Graduate Research Fellow in Astronomy, Georgia State University
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Research fellow in space physics, Lancaster University
