Arecibo Observatory suffers additional damage from second cable failure November 08, 2020Arecibo Observatory suffers additional damage from second cable failure By Astronomy Now A second support cable at the Arecibo Observato...Read More
Milky Way magnetar likely source of fast radio burst November 06, 2020Milky Way magnetar likely source of fast radio burst By Astronomy Now An artist’s impression of a magnetar generating a high-energy flar...Read More
Voyager 2 hears from Earth after months-long antenna overhaul November 04, 2020Voyager 2 hears from Earth after months-long antenna overhaul By Astronomy Now The 70-metre (230-foot) Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43) di...Read More
A dazzling jewel box of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud November 02, 2020A dazzling jewel box of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud By Astronomy Now The Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys cap...Read More
Red dwarfs may be more hazardous to one’s health than previously thought October 30, 2020Red dwarfs may be more hazardous to one’s health than previously thought By Astronomy Now An artist’s impression of a red dwarf blasting...Read More
Growing up fast in the very early universe October 27, 2020Growing up fast in the very early universe By Astronomy Now An artist’s impression of a very dusty galaxy in the early universe that alr...Read More
Adding impetus to Artemis, water found on sunlit surface of the Moon October 26, 2020Adding impetus to Artemis, water found on sunlit surface of the Moon By Astronomy Now The airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrare...Read More
OSIRIS-REx captures treasure trove of samples from asteroid Bennu October 25, 2020OSIRIS-REx captures treasure trove of samples from asteroid Bennu By Astronomy Now After OSIRIS-REx’s TAGSAM sample collector bumped int...Read More
OSIRIS-REx stirs up a rocky blizzard tagging an asteroid in search of samples October 23, 2020OSIRIS-REx stirs up a rocky blizzard tagging an asteroid in search of samples By Astronomy Now After “tagging” the asteroid Bennu on 20 O...Read More
Live coverage: OSIRIS-REx descending toward asteroid Bennu for sampling run October 20, 2020Live coverage: OSIRIS-REx descending toward asteroid Bennu for sampling run By Stephen Clark Live coverage of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission t...Read More
Red supergiant Betelgeuse not so bright, not so giant, not so far away October 16, 2020Red supergiant Betelgeuse not so bright, not so giant, not so far away By Astronomy Now The red supergiant Betelgeuse. Image: ALMA (ESO/...Read More
Supermassive black hole ‘spaghettifies’ doomed star in tidal disruption event October 12, 2020Supermassive black hole ‘spaghettifies’ doomed star in tidal disruption event By Astronomy Now An artist’s impression of a star in the p...Read More
Nobel Prize in physics honours black hole theory and observation October 06, 2020Nobel Prize in physics honours black hole theory and observation By Astronomy Now One half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarde...Read More
Stunning new view of the Carina Nebula shows power of adaptive optics October 05, 2020Stunning new view of the Carina Nebula shows power of adaptive optics By Astronomy Now Both of these images show the Carina Nebula’s wes...Read More
Thirty Hubble exposures blended to reveal stunning view of a face-on spiral October 04, 2020Thirty Hubble exposures blended to reveal stunning view of a face-on spiral By Astronomy Now Thirty exposures captured over nine hours by...Read More
Scientists precisely measure total amount of matter in the cosmos September 28, 2020Scientists precisely measure total amount of matter in the cosmos By Astronomy Now The breakdown of dark energy and matter, both normal ...Read More
Juno probe captures Jupiter’s polar cyclones in all their psychedelic glory September 27, 2020Juno probe captures Jupiter’s polar cyclones in all their psychedelic glory By Astronomy Now NASA’s Juno spacecraft is the first to captu...Read More
Listening to the music of the Milky Way September 26, 2020Listening to the music of the Milky Way By Astronomy Now https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2020/sonify/sonify_galactic_all.mp4 A composite vi...Read More
Black hole’s shadow is wobbling, providing insights into dynamics of accretion disc September 23, 2020Black hole’s shadow is wobbling, providing insights into dynamics of accretion disc By Astronomy Now The Event Horizon Telescope project...Read More
Join us for the Cosmic Clouds 3-D book launch September 22, 2020Join us for the Cosmic Clouds 3-D book launch By Astronomy Now Join us at 8pm BST (1900 GMT) for the launch of Cosmic Cloud 3-D, hosted ...Read More