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I have spent a good part of my life pointing telescopes upward and trying to persuade people...
Universe Today
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It’s a tough, winding haul to reach the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). An hour or so inland...
Some of the best science stories start with a puzzle nobody expected. This one begins in the...
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The Andromeda Galaxy, one of the Milky Way’s closest cosmic neighbors, is a fascinating subject for astronomers....
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The nature of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a hot topic in space science. It appears that...
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Science seems like a straightforward endeavour. You come up with a hypothesis, collect data to prove or...
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Scientists have discovered a rare star formation hidden in a distant galaxy, unlike anything seen before beyond...
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What is a home actually for? Not the roof and the walls, but the thing itself, the...
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How do you build a planet before there are any galaxies to put it in? It sounds...
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In the simplest version of events, stars form when clouds of cold molecular hydrogen collapse into protostars....
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Views of the August 12th total solar eclipse from Earth and space. It was an eclipse for...
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The atmospheric is a dynamic place, and just how well we understand that dynamism depends on what...
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Clusters are the largest gravitationally bound things in the universe, thousands of galaxies held together in a...
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How well would you know someone from four photographs taken a decade apart? That, roughly, is the...
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What do you do when the observation you need comes round once a year? Well preparation is...
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Scientists using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawai’i have found a mechanism occurring on...
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In February 1969, months before Apollo 11 lifted off, a fireball crossed the sky over Chihuahua and...
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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has been a source of fascination ever since the Voyager 1 and 2...
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The surface of the Moon is a bleak and forbidding place that could be hiding a lot...
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There is a question that often comes up at every public talk I do, and I have...