06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... magnetic fields generated by these phenomena can be gleaned from the polarisation of the X-rays they emit. Polarised waves are waves in which the vibrations occur in a single plane as opposed to unpolarised light which vibrates in more than one...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
... events themselves, but incidents such as hurricanes or tsunamis can create waves that travel all the way up to this interface to space, ...little as an hour. As communication signals, like radio waves and signals that make our GPS systems work, also ...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
... but we've seen when they turned on in radio waves arriving from space,” added Bowman. However distinguishing these ...Radio-astronomy Observatory, Australia. In each instrument, radio waves are collected by an antenna consisting of two rectangular...
05 April 2018
Newly discovered black holes suggests thousands more in our galaxy
... finding confirms a major theory and the implications are many," Hailey said. "It is going to significantly advance gravitational wave research because knowing the number of black holes in the centre of a typical galaxy can help in better predicting...
