The world of amateur astronomy is slowly undergoing several changes. One of these is the advent of smarter telescopes, offering…
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Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space – a flash that lasts only instants…
When you think of space telescopes, the SuperBIT program from the University of Toronto in Canada probably doesn’t come to…
For South Africans, the word Huntsman brings to mind the spiders that tend to show up just before it rains.…
We always knew that the James Webb Space Telescope would go on to do wonderful things. It cost in the…
South Africa continues its contribution to the research of outer space. But BOOTES 6, the new robotic optical telescope set…
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…
Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, are found at distances very far from Earth. For example, the…
It’s reassuring to know that a $10 billion (R154 billion) space telescope like James Webb shares DNA with terrestrial telescopes.…