March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...models of the Moon’s surface and photographed them against a black, starry background for his book with James Carpenter, The ... but only provided much new material for space artists. Black holes, pulsars, quasars and hundreds of extrasolar planets; as ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... saw our fragile home planet rotating alone in the vast blackness of space. Jim Lovell said, “The vast loneliness is... air and frozen waters on Mars, peered even deeper into black holes, and perhaps heard signals from civilizations on planets in nearby...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
...astronomical objects. There have been many theories linking them to black holes or gamma ray bursts, but no convincing evidence has yet... site. Anna Nelles in front of station tower with hole to access the station electronics. Signals more similar to ...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...from the satellite constellations, stating that “recent advances in radio astronomy, such as producing the first image of a black hole or understanding more about the formation of the planetary systems, were only possible through concentrated efforts...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
...half a century ago could read a few classic astronomy texts featuring black-and-white plates from the likes of the Palomar Telescope and, in... astrophysics from the “early cosmic maps”, via black holes and the cosmic background radiation to what the ...
08 January 2023
Stars in Your Hand: A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos
... in three dimensions, readers can print and visualise stars, nebulae, supernovae, galaxies and even black holes in three dimensions. Following a primer on the electromagnetic spectrum and an introduction to 3D techniques applied to astronomical data...
