Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system,…
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Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night…
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance…
The “music” of starquakes – enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many…
On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down…
When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on…
Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions…
A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence. As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from us varies from 357,000…
Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars,…
We breathe oxygen and nitrogen gas in our atmosphere every day, but did you know that these gases also float…