17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... takes a different kind of “telescope” to look for radio waves. Instead of one huge telescope, like the type that optical... a high degree of polarisation whereby the vibrations in the light wave occur in a single plane. Over the years, scientists have ...
29 June 2020
Black hole collision may have exploded with light
... the location where the gravitational wave signal originated. These gravitational wave detectors have also spotted mergers between... ZTF, coupled with what we can learn from the gravitational waves, opens up a new avenue to study both black hole ...
01 July 2020
How Earth’s protective magnetic bubble can ‘flap’ over the Moon
... from solar wind particles. If the wind after the shock wave is strong enough, it can cause enough movement to expose the...spacecraft to monitor the effects of one high-speed shock wave that barrelled towards Earth, travelling at 1.7 million miles ...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
...by solar ultraviolet radiation, temperature variations and action of waves and marine life. As plastics break down, they ... the most significant spectral features of plastics are in the Short Wave Infra-Red (SWIR), roughly between 1000 nm and 2000 nm, ...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... in the periastron of the binary system – the point of closest approach - led to the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves. The first radar ranging of an Earth-crossing asteroid, 1862 Apollo, was done in 1980 and, a year later...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... structure and support the presence of spiral density waves, which would be compressing the magnetic field lines...galaxies between the gravitational interaction, star formation, spiral density waves and the nature of magnetic fields. We still have much...
