15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
...treated to spectacular shows of luminescence that light up the night sky predominantly at mid to high latitudes. We know them as ...and from sodium (Na) and oxygen (O) atoms in Earth’s skies and it is this latter atom, oxygen, that gives terrestrial...
04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
...last milliseconds have been detected streaking through our skies, having started their journey somewhere beyond our galaxy...nature of FRB’s means that determining their position on the sky is challenging. Without knowing for certain what type of object...
December 2014
Finding NEO
...and ongoing surveys. Ground-based Spacewatch, LINEAR, the Catalina Sky Survey and Pan-STARRS, as well as space-based NEOWISE...by far the most ambitious, multi-purpose, proposed survey of the sky. It will be a large, wide-field, ground-based imaging ...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
...in international space activities. On 23 July at 3:04 am, Soyuz TMA-17M rocket launched successfully into the clear, pitch-black sky over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Just before the launch, the rocket’s destination – the ISS (International...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... to have an atmosphere; therefore it must have a blue sky - right? Likewise Saturn’s huge moon Titan. We are delighted... to contrast the bleak, monochrome lunar landscape with the blue skies, clouds, snowy mountains, lake and vegetation of our own ...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
...diameter) MeerKAT provides 2,000 unique antenna pairs to look at the sky between frequencies of 900 MHz and 1670 MHz; far more than any... the array can produce high-fidelity images of the radio sky, including what could arguably be the best view yet of...
