14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
..., it has already pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. “Today’s release gives...“Gaia is at the forefront of astrometry, charting the sky at precisions that have never been achieved before.” The precision...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
...orbit (HEO) is TESS, the first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey whose primary mission is to search for planets ...115 square degrees, or around 0.25 percent of the sky, TESS will look at the whole sky all at once. To compare, it would take around...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... seen with the naked eye in exceptionally dark, clear skies. Pi Mensae was one of several hundred thousand pre-...dozen constellations from Capricornus to Pictor. This swath of the sky’s southern hemisphere includes more than a dozen stars (aside from...
March 2015
Sowing a new dream
... and to pay back all that my parents had given me. I never thought the sky would call to me At the time, I thought I would be a lawyer or...like you, turn into a butterfly, fly to the sky and realise my dream.” Zero gravity was both challenging and...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... eager to imagine the world as rigidly governed by a very limited number of forces. ‘Satellite in my eyes / Like a diamond in the sky / How I wonder’ The truth is, the kind of conspiracy theorising that arose in the wake of the disappearance of MH370...
11 August 2016
Perseids Outburst Promises Spectacular Show on August 11th
...13, 2015. The Perseids appear to radiate out from a point on the border of constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia. Credit:Sky & Telescope Magazine Illustration Perseids come from the Perseus constellation, which typically appears on the horizon around...
