Star spotted speeding near black hole at centre of Milky Way Chile’s Very Large Telescope tracks S2 star as it reaches mind-boggling speeds by supermassive black hole Source: www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/26/star-spotted-speeding-near-milky-way-black-hole-for-first-time
The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics | Quanta Magazine New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called âoctonions.â…
Martian atmosphere behaves as one New research using a decade of data from ESA’s Mars Express has found clear signs of the complex martian atmosphere acting as a single,…
Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography — and has captured remarkably…
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found—11 “normal” outer moons, and one that they’re calling an “oddball.” This brings Jupiter’s total number of known moons to a whopping 79—the…
The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy | Simons Foundation The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy on Simons…
MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of center of the Milky Way – SKA SA Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr…
Gaia Identifies a Stellar Gap New data from the Gaia mission has revealed a surprise hidden among main-sequence stars. Source: aasnova.org/2018/07/11/3796/
'Ghost' particles from black-hole jetstream found in Antarctic Neutrinos are the universeâs ghosts. Trillions of these particles move through us all the time at close to the speed of light.…
NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976 Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first…
Stargazing with a smartphone | BBC Sky at Night Magazine By combining GPS positioning and an accelerometer, your phone can tell not only where you are on the planet,…
Testing the Sony a7III for Astrophotography Testing the Sony a7III for Astrophotography I put the new Sony a7III mirrorless camera through its paces for the features and functions we need…