Astronomers have used new capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to open a whole new realm of research into how galaxies evolve and interact with their ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...
In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...
It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...
The “ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series”, published today, allows students to gain exciting hands-on experience in astronomy by making realistic calculations with data obtained by the world’s best ...