by Jonathan Nally | Nov 21, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Above: The afterglow of GRB 190114C and its home galaxy were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on February 11 and March 12, 2019. The gamma ray burst (centre of the green circle) was located about 800 light-years from the galaxy’s core. Credit: NASA, ESA, and V....
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 24, 2019 | Astronomy, Comets, Cosmology, News
Above: On October 12, 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet 2I/Borisov at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA) The Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best view yet of an...
by Jonathan Nally | Oct 23, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Telescopes
Above: A simulation of galaxies in the early Universe, as generated by the Summit supercomputer. Courtesy ASTRO 3D. Researchers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US and Shanghai...
by Jonathan Nally | Aug 24, 2019 | Astronomy, Cosmology
Scientists say they have, for the first time, likely detected a black hole devouring a neutron star. The detection was made on August 14, 2019, using gravitational-wave observatories in the United States and Italy. The observatories’ detectors picked up the...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 9, 2018 | Cosmology, News
Artist’s impression of the NEEC phenomenon. Credit: U.S. Army Research Laboratory New research involving The Australian National University (ANU) has, for the first time, demonstrated a long-theorised nuclear effect, in a feat that will help scientists...
