October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
..., accumulating 180 days in space. As a mission specialist on STS-124 she rode on was part of a crew on Space Shuttle Discovery playing its part in building the ISS by installing the Japanese laboratory. Then, as a flight engineer for Expedition...
09 July 2015
Discovery of a five-star solar system in Ursa Major highlights mystery of proto-stellar disk fragmentation
... like a bit too much? Not as far as a rare star system recently found in Ursa Major goes. The discovery of a peculiar quintuplet of closely linked stars orbiting around a single centre of gravity has put Earth’s pop culture...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
...about 70 kilometres per second per megaparsec, a value which is consistent with previous estimates. This unprecedented discovery is the subject of five Nature papers and one Nature Astronomy paper containing the collaborative work of 70 observatories...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... exactly created them is still under question. This ambiguity might soon be turned on its head with the discovery of PS1-10adi – an event that the authors of a new research paper submitted to Nature Astronomy, say is the most...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... matter in the universe. This would provide the first glimpse of physics beyond the standard model." "This discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of how the world we see came into being," Kurczynski says. "With...
05 April 2018
Newly discovered black holes suggests thousands more in our galaxy
... suggests that there could be up to 10,000 more within just three light years of the Galactic Centre. The discovery, made by a team from Columbia University, helps support a long standing theory that thousands of black holes surround...
