19 May 2016
Astronomers find a group of stars dying too early
.... With HERMES, astronomers in Australia have the chance to observe globular clusters without the need for using telescopes overseas, not only that, but HERMES is capable of analysing the chemical composition of up to 400 stars at a time. "This...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
.... From 1999 until 2013, data from the Chandra telescope showed an expanding ring of X-ray emission that had...compact object formed as the centre of the star collapsed, however no telescope has yet to find any evidence for either of these objects yet....
27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
... in the constellation of Pisces, SDSS J0104+1535 was spotted using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and has been classified as an L type ultra-subdwarf according to a scheme very recently established by Dr Zhang. The...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... to the idea that this trio of exoplanets could indeed be habitable. Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers followed up the initial discovery, with observations to study that amount the amount of ultraviolet...
30 August 2018
Unstoppable monster galaxy puzzles and enlightens astronomers
... the galaxy. COSMOS-AzTEC-1 was first discovered with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), and later with the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT). However with additional data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
... NASA’s successor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, was also allocated $423 million and funding was also provided...PACE and CLARREO-Pathfinder, and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). WFIRST was recommended in 2010 by United States...
