08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...the dish would be able to observe the Universe in the 5 –100 metre wavelength band, a region of the electromagnetic spectrum rarely utilised in astronomy. The radio telescope, which would have “tremendous advantages compared to Earth-based telescopes...
17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
...spectrograph called SOPHIE; a spectrograph is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and it has been used to search for Neptunes and super-Earths in the Northern Hemisphere since 2011...
10 July 2020
An unexpected class of 'odd' circular objects found by astronomers
... big they really are. All four ORCS are also only visible in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, so they cannot be seen at infrared, optical or X-ray wavelengths. Whatever they are, they are certainly strange; all...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
... water (H2O) or other hydroxyl (OH) compounds as both have chemical signatures at 3µm (micrometers) – the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum they were detected in – and it was difficult to discriminate between the two. Neither was it clear just...
30 October 2020
It seems there might not be life on Venus after all, say two new studies
... Maxwell Telescope – the largest single-dish telescope that operates in the far-infrared to microwave wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. As ground-breaking as these results were, the team did not explicitly specify that microbes were behind...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
... a later study of this data revealed something intriguing; a portion of the light in the ultraviolet band of the electromagnetic spectrum, was being absorbed by a mysterious molecule. This absorption feature, that centred around 184 nanometers, was...
