The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems. My…
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Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio…
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts. Pulsars are the…
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could…
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico…
In 2019, my colleagues and I discovered spooky glowing rings in the sky using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia. The…
In a huge milestone, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has finally been aligned to produce the first unified image of a…
White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we’ve never seen one, or even seen…
“Holy sharks, Batman, it’s periodic!” I exclaimed on Slack. It was the first lockdown of 2021 in Perth, and we…
On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending…