In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes –…
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The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST for short, is one of the most advanced telescopes ever built. Planning for JWST…
Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos…
Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) – intense, momentary bursts of…
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration produced the first-ever image of a black hole, stunning the world. Now, scientists are taking…
Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our…
Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or…
An enormous neutrino observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice has discovered only the second extra-galactic source of the elusive…
Astronomers have revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The image was…
On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius A* that…