January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... the NASA Project Scientist for the SOFIA airborne observatory. She earned her PhD in physics and astronomy from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on observational astrochemistry and characterising the molecular interstellar...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
...100 years, according to the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy. The asteroid got closer and closer – easier to see...August but staff had begun going around the blockade, and astronomy resumed. Tholen’s team trained 55 of the Canada-France-...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... The Italian team state that detectors used in radio-astronomy are already swamped by satellite communication signals from space ... space community to think what means more: ground-based astronomy and traditional views of the night sky, or cheaper ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...envisage that this concept would unlock the potential for ground-breaking scientific discoveries in radio astronomy,” concludes Bandyopadhyay. In addition to Bandyopadhyay’s concept, NASA also awarded a Phase III grant to Slava Turyshev, a researcher...
17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
...improvement of the instrument and of our signal processing techniques," says François Bouchy, professor in the Department of Astronomy of the Faculty of science of UNIGE and coordinator of the observational program that helped discover the six-planet...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
... powerful but problem-prone James Webb Space Telescope, would be able to detect them. “Throughout the history of astronomy, telescopes have become more powerful, allowing us to probe sources from successively earlier cosmic times — ever closer...
