The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life,…
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MeerKAT, if you’ve been paying attention, is South Africa’s newest radio telescope array. Part of the ongoing Square Kilometre Array…
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They’ll…
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980) This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious…
The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems. My…
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…