June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
... Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
..., the nearest ultra-luminous infrared galaxy, which has merged with another galaxy and is undergoing a burst of star formation. A maser is analogous to a laser – an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation – with the light...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
...FRB events Secondly, magnetic fields play very critical roles in almost every aspect of astrophysics, ranging from star formation to large-scale galactic and intergalactic dynamics. They also have a significant contribution to the hydrostatic balance...
24 May 2016
Astronomers find ultra diffuse galaxy heavy in dark matter
.... "Globular clusters, made up of hundreds of thousands of stars, orbit within the gravitational field of the ultradiffuse galaxy," adds...as it fell into the Virgo cluster, had its star formation halted early on preventing further growth due to its ...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... to study a diverse area of astronomical phenomena from the first stars and galaxies that emerged from the cosmic "dark ages" billions ...and the colliding galaxies Arp 220, a massive region of star formation close to the centre of the Milky Way in the ...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
... civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible, and; R* = the average rate of star formation in our galaxy; fp = fraction of those stars that have planets; ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life...
