02 January 2018
Five awesome ideas for an adult's astronaut party
...your guests need to look the part! There are many easy and cheap ways to make a DIY astronaut costume if you like to use your hands...such as fruit loops (the rings of Saturn), milky ways and rocket ice-lollies if the weather permits. These are just ...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... dark matter; taking an inventory of the solar system; exploring the transient optical sky; and mapping the Milky Way. The telescope will have an 8.4-metre primary mirror, an unusually large field of view (10 square degrees, or about 50 times...
June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
... star-forming region NGC 3603 contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... but, until last year, scientists had no fool-proof way of testing for their presence. The first measurements, which ... are shown for comparison, with the Sun rising and the Milky Way diagonally from NW to SE. Shane Larson, Northwestern University; Roy...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... the ILO-1 astrophysical observatory and research station, one of its tasks is to capture the first image of the Milky Way galaxy centre from the surface of the Moon. It is also planned to observe the Stars, Earth in various wavelengths...
August 2019
The next us – our evolution in deep space
...evolve as a spacefaring species, we must work to understand the way that space will change us both physically and mentally. Like the... the Sun becomes one star amongst the rest of the Milky Way, new behaviours will be learned and old patterns of action...
