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 ...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
...absorbed by the protective cloud layers that make up our skies. It has thus only been possible to study photons ...of view will maximise the detection probability and provide accurate sky localisation (better than one square degree), thus allowing the...
July 2020
Trailblazing STEM education
... home-grown solution. I remember the magic of that night sky in 1957. The grass soaked my back as I peered upward in search ... who came from the generation that looked to the night sky and dared to chart their individual paths to explore new worlds...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... their demand and support the creation of International Dark Sky Reserves, territories sufficiently protected from the light of human...mathematical calculations, it became necessary to think of the sky as a sphere whose centre was everywhere and its ...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
...idea of where to look. Assuming they could find it in the sky, they wanted a better estimate of its orbit – and its likelihood ...finding the asteroid itself but by looking at the place in the sky where it would have been, had it been coming to Earth in...
