04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... an 8.4 metre primary mirror and it will be able to image the entire sky in only a few nights. Its role, amongst other things, will be ... by 60 bright moving dots in their otherwise familiar sky. And with more and more satellites, the potential for...
11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
..., pictures surfaced of a train of lights sailing through the dark skies in one long line (see below). An image that quickly cast... their word, will it really make a big difference to the night sky or is it just a big fuss about nothing? Since the first...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... the telescope is still going strong, as a new all-sky Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalogue is currently being prepared that..., Schrödinger’s Cat and Mount Fuji in Japan depicted in the sky as points of the highest-energy light in the Universe, then ...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
... – one exabyte is the equivalent of one billion gigabytes. The finished product looks like an image of a normal night sky vista CSIRO says, but instead of stars, the millions of bright specks captured on the panorama are distant...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
...two telescopes, ATLAS is now capable of searching the entire dark sky every 24 hours, making it an important asset for NASA’s ... Sauce Observatory in Chile, enable ATLAS to observe the night sky when it is daytime in Hawai‘i. To date, the ATLAS...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... we look only at very massive, single stars in the sky, half of them used to be binaries and have now merged...binary stars. Transients Transient sources are bright objects in the sky which appear, then disappear or dim, quickly on astronomical ...
