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What's causing a weird, repeating signal from space? Astronomers are stumped.
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoWhy do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different kinds of life on other planets? You only know ...
Private Odysseus moon lander reveals which Earth 'technosignatures' aliens might see
SPACE.com· 1 day agoHuman technology like cell phones and broadcast towers constantly radiate radio waves into space, and astronomers estimate this tell-tale signature of humanity has swept across ...
JWST Spots Asteroid Collision In Another Star System
IFLScience· 3 days agoTwenty years ago, astronomers used the Spitzer telescope to study Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years away. Researchers back then saw a significant...
An amateur astronomer had galaxies named after him. Here’s how
Interesting Engineering· 5 days agoInterestingly, Donatiello believes it may be hard for other amateur astronomers to have galaxies...
Edmond Halley: The man behind the comet
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoIf you’re an amateur astronomer of a certain age, you’ll remember where you were in the winter of 1985–86, when Halley’s Comet passed Earth. Shivering...
Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Ars Technica· 2 days agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...
How can the visible universe be 46 billion light-years in radius when the universe is only 13.8...
Astronomy Magazine· 1 day agoAstronomers widely accept that the universe formed in the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years...
Jeff Bezos has a vision to colonize space with a trillion people. We asked experts to put it to the...
Business Insider· 1 hour agoJeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live in the solar system. But experts are...
Digital Cameras Revolutionized Astronomy. Then They Found Their Way into Your Pocket
Scientific American· 6 days agoIt’s true that the very best pictures still require large observatories on the ground or in space,...