14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
...During a period of observation last year with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, astronomers detected 21 emitted bursts from...further examination by AI either; using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), radio signals from other celestial ...
17 July 2019
New measurement deepens mystery of Universe’s expansion rate
... for the underlying physics of the Universe in order to explain it. These galaxies are selected from a Hubble Space Telescope program to measure the expansion rate of the universe, called the Hubble constant. The value is calculated by comparing...
30 April 2021
Scientists identify 14 stars that could be made of antimatter
...10 years worth of gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to see of they could find a match. Of ...candidates, assumed antistar properties and the sensitivity of the Fermi telescope, the team calculated that in the Milky Way, only one...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... star-forming cloud known as Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) by researchers primarily using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia as part of the Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey, this puzzle is one step closer...
18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
... to collect enough photons of light for each star in order to scrutinise its spectra. Luckily the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) at the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) near Coonabarabran, NSW, is equipped to observe 360 stars at the same...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... onboard for up to six and a half years of operation, so extending a stare is also a possibility. PLATO takes the multi-telescope, wide field-ofview concept to the extreme There is another problem to overcome, however. Transit observations only give...
