04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
... radio pulse signal in data collected by the Parkes 64-metre telescope in Australia in 2001. The signal became known as a ...luck would have it, China’s five-hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was also pointed in the same patch of sky...
24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
... putting together data to produce the image. The data was collected from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a huge virtual telescope which links together existing facilities such as the Atacama Large millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA...
24 December 2021
Less than 24hrs to go before the launch of JWST!
... worked mirror technology development for Webb. “I poured 30 years of experience and knowledge into helping make the telescope mirrors a reality. I will be greatly relieved once the observatory is in orbit and operational, and I expect I will feel...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
... by a 2009 close up from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3, installed during the final shuttle... It took a coffee table book of images from the Hubble Space Telescope for me to appreciate the opportunity for space imagery to be recreated...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
...surface of Europa by astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Researchers suspect that the high altitude plumes consist ... The team, led by William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, had originally planned to find out...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... planets with liquid water. The exoplanet system, named after the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, is located in the Aquarius constellation, which is about 40 light years (235 trillion miles) away from...
