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The Most Powerful Solar Flare in 7 Years Just Occurred This Year
My Modern Met· 2 days agoIn early May, solar flares caused stunning auroras, grabbing the attention of a lot of astronomy...
Canada becomes member of SKAO radio astronomy project
Benzinga· 4 days agoWorldwide collaboration is required to advance scientific discoveries, the fundamental understanding of our universe, and to build cutting-edge instrumentation—especially in fields such as & ...
Quad-Cities Popular Astronomy Club: Phase of the moon helped determine the date of D-Day
Quad-City Times· 1 day agoJune 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe that ultimately led...
The Physics of Failure: Analyzing Hubble’s Gyroscope Malfunction
SciTechDaily· 4 hours agoThe Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode due to gyroscope problems, suspending its...
ASTRONOMY: Galaxies galore — ‘faint fuzzies’ pile up the light | Bella Vista Weekly Vista
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette· 2 days agoThroughout June, many galaxies can be seen with telescopes of 8 inches or more. At about 9:30 p.m.,...
'Nicely done!' Boeing Starliner astronauts welcomed to ISS at last
AccuWeather· 4 hours agoBoeing Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore (both in blue) go aboard the...
What's causing a weird, repeating signal from space? Astronomers are stumped.
Astronomy Magazine· 3 hours agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
Hourly radio signal from space has scientists stumped: ‘We can’t quite explain what’s going on here’
NY Post via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoEmil Lenc, CC BY-NC It comes from an estimated 4.85 kiloparsecs away, according to their data,...
Scientists find slowest spinning 'radio neutron star' — it breaks all the dead-star rules
SPACE.com· 4 hours agoAstronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio wave-blasting neutron star ever seen; it...
Astronomer Lunine appointed chief scientist of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell News Service· 1 day agoPlanetary scientist Jonathan I. Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and...