28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
... Widefield Array (MWA) in Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India. "We've seen outbursts in the centres of... discovery with Phase 1 of the MWA, when the telescope had 2048 antennas pointed towards the sky," Johnston-Hollitt ...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
... the problem was close to being solved, astronomers using the Lovell Telescope in Manchester, UK, now have a new piece of evidence to...180916.J10158+56, which was recently discovered by the CHIME telescope in Canada. Elation aside, the result now pours...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... an innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats and the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a vast radio telescope concept deployed to a crater on the far side of the Moon that was proposed by Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay...
07 April 2021
Astronomers find a rare pair of double quasars in the early Universe
... with the help of several space and ground-based telescopes, because despite their enormous size and energy output, ...down to two pairs with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. Finally, the team used the the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph ...
21 December 2018
Still time to see this years brightest comet
... missions target in the end. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed comet 46P/Wirtanen on 13 December when the ...therefore best to view the comet through binoculars or a telescope. Backyard observers can currently find the comet near the ...
12 July 2019
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist
...Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of ... deep inside this disc, the researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. This diagnostic tool divides the light...
