Astronomy and Amateur Science [Archive] - Page 2

Fresh impact crater spotted on Mars by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (1 replies)
"Perfect" quantum "Klein tunnelling" observed for first time (1 replies)
China's population projected to decrease by 31.4 million between now and 2050 (6 replies)
STP-2 Mission Falcon Heavy Launch (0 replies)
Superflare events from Sun estimated to be statistically significant for modern Earth (1 replies)
Massive mascon detected beneath the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin. Metal asteroid? (5 replies)
Five Things to Know about NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock (0 replies)
Cosmic Plasma Bridge between Galaxy Clusters (0 replies)
The sun's super-heating mystery may be solved with Parker Solar Probe (1 replies)
Fermi observations provide insights into the nature of Terzan 5 globular cluster (0 replies)
Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger's cat (and finally save it) (1 replies)
Household Radar Can See Through Walls and Knows How You’re Feeling (6 replies)
Hubble Constant? The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought (1 replies)
Falcon Heavy’s next launch (0 replies)
50 year-old vacuum sealed lunar samples hope to shed new light on the Moon's geology (0 replies)
Hubble Space Telescope measurements of Hubble Constant reinforce new physics theory (0 replies)
University of California SF describe brain activity to natural speech prosthesis (0 replies)
Helium Hydride ion, HeH+, finally detected in space. "The birth of chemistry" (0 replies)
Meteoroid strikes briefly eject water vapour into thin lunar atmosphere (0 replies)
LIGO spots another gravitational wave from colliding black holes (1 replies)
Hopes for IBM's Watson to provide expert medical diagnosis fades for some (2 replies)
The six published M87 Event Horizon Papers (1 replies)
Event Horizon Photo coming 10 April (1 replies)
LHC experiments shed light on why matter dominates over anti-matter (4 replies)
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Is Put to the Test (2 replies)
With single gene insertion, blind mice regain sight (7 replies)
NASA Space Launch System (SLS) heavy rocket won't be ready for June 2020 launch (8 replies)
UWS Telescope (4 replies)
Controversial experiments that could make bird flu more risky poised to resume (0 replies)
Any idea what causes this huge dust jet? (0 replies)
Why don't Jupiter's clouds mix to a uniform colour eventually? (14 replies)
Ozian, Vulcanian and Spockian - map makers name three epochs in history of Charon (0 replies)
Next Launch for Falcon Heavy (6 replies)
Eta Carinae is RED ??? (8 replies)
Galaxy line up like beads on a string. (13 replies)
China mulls over proposal to build world's largest particle accelerator (0 replies)
Gravitational Wave astronomy - the next wave in astronomy? (2 replies)
Space communication system using X-rays to be demonstrated on ISS (1 replies)
120° stream of ~4000 stars across Milky Way identified as likely disrupted cluster (0 replies)
DNA from Darwin's rabbit helps to explain evolutionary fightback against myxomatosis (0 replies)
Various methods of measuring Hubble Constant not quite in agreement - new physics? (29 replies)
New type of magnet demonstrated using magnetic moments of electron-hole pairs (0 replies)
NASA sets 2nd March 19 for unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule test (1 replies)
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to land on Ryugu asteroid on 22 Feb 2019 (1 replies)
Star formation question (1 replies)
DeepMind's latest AI trounces young males at playing video games (3 replies)
Milky Way is S-shaped according to a new 3D map (0 replies)
Large volcanic event on Io detected by sodium using C14 on AP 1100 mount (3 replies)
Homunculus is rapidly becoming obscured by the brightening of Eta Carina (14 replies)
Engineers translate brain signals directly into speech (10 replies)
More accurate distances to quasars reveals tension in standard cosmological model (0 replies)
Earth Moon image from Mars orbit (2 replies)
Moon pictures (4 replies)
Multiple researchers find gum disease causes Alzheimer’s (9 replies)
COSINE-100 experiment fails to detect WIMP dark matter candidate in first 59.9 days (0 replies)
Negative capacitance directly measured by Berkeley researchers (1 replies)
Space can be distorted either in or out. (2 replies)
CERN publishes idea for LHC successor - the Future Circular Collider (FCC) (6 replies)
Chlorine trifluoride - the hypergolic that even sets asbestos on fire on contact (14 replies)
Competing theories on what caused AT2018cow "The Cow" to erupt (1 replies)
Record breaking 1.1 million volt DC line stretching 3000km to help China air quality (1 replies)
Evidence that white dwarf stars form crystal cores of metallic oxygen and carbon (4 replies)
The Fight for the Future of the Disk Drive (6 replies)
SpaceX to press ahead in 2019 with Starlink Internet satellites - technical hurdles (4 replies)
Does our universe have an antimatter partner on the other side of the Big Bang? (11 replies)
Which is Girtab (5 replies)
Competition between Blue Origin and SpaceX heats up (0 replies)
One analysis of the odd's of SpaceX’s Internet satellites will hit someone are high (5 replies)
Conversion of Coordinates to RA and Dec (5 replies)
Congratulations to Terry B! (0 replies)
Claim that Loop Quantum Gravity theory predicts black holes evolve into white holes (9 replies)
Satellite orbit mishap used to test general relativity with unprecedented precision (1 replies)
* South Italy galaxy (0 replies)
How to become a master at chess and just about any other game (4 replies)
Teaching robots to walk more like a human (1 replies)
Oldest substantive evidence for humans butchering animals found in North Africa (3 replies)
Apollo seismology data gets new life (3 replies)
Finn's Nebula discovered (2 replies)
Metacorrector - nanoparticles and chromatic aberration (0 replies)
MIT researchers demo an airplane with no moving parts - ion drive (0 replies)
60 Minutes story (36 replies)
Binary Wolf Rayet stars rotating so fast that sub-critical for nearby GRB (0 replies)
South Africa's online journal "Nightfall" is out (7 replies)
Kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole redefined from May 2019 (0 replies)
Greenland glacier hid 31km wide impact crater (3 replies)
Gravity waves? Maybe not. (8 replies)
Chinese Tokamak plasma claimed to reach 100 million degrees C (3 replies)
NASA-Cams (1 replies)
LMC & SMC likely collided a few hundred million years ago - GAIA data evidence (5 replies)
Exoplanet Detection with Consumer Equipment (3 replies)
Planet X again (3 replies)
Next Falcon Heavy Launch date ? (1 replies)
Some intereting numerical modelling of the magellanic cloud interactions (2 replies)
Aeolus satellite measures wind speeds from space - replaces weather ballons (0 replies)
Water on MARS - 20km Lake (8 replies)
The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt (0 replies)
Possible "sterile neutrino" detection Fermilab, Chicago (3 replies)
2nd Falcon Heavy Launch Date ? (0 replies)
A Hubble Collection - 71 Images (1 replies)
Hubble looks back .... (38 replies)
The End of Deep Sky Astronomy from the Ground? (1 replies)
Discovery of a Galaxy in Cetus void of Dark Matter (4 replies)
Julian Oey (from NSW) 2018 Shoemaker NEO Grant Winner (2 replies)
Once every Billion Years, eh..... (0 replies)
Saturn Iarus paper March 1st 2018 (3 replies)
Space X Falcon Heavy static test successful (6 replies)
A new look at Venus with Akatsuki (2 replies)
Highly polarized electromagnetic radiation from FRB 121102 might betray its source (1 replies)
Mirror casting for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) (4 replies)
Tube like structures on Mars (5 replies)
Did the Solar System form in a Wolf-Rayet star bubble? - University of Chicago study (1 replies)
Cassiopeia A.. Elements formed. (2 replies)
Life on Earth started at least 3.465 billion years ago - West Australia fossils (2 replies)
SkyMapper - Siding Spring (2 replies)
Saturn's rings may be less than 200 million years old - Cassini analysis (0 replies)
New quantum material discovered - "Weyl–Kondo semimetal" (1 replies)
NASA Resource Prospector designed to search and process water on the Moon (0 replies)
Google neural network helps discover two new exoplanets by scrutinizing Kepler data (2 replies)
Excitonium - a form of matter theorized 50 years ago - finally discovered (0 replies)
ALMA discovers infant stars surprisingly close to Milky Way supermassive black hole (0 replies)
SKA1-Low : IEEE's Rachel Courtland provides a first-hand account from Murchinson (0 replies)
Proper motion of stars outside Milky Way (10 replies)
VLT Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) images enormous nebula around quasar (0 replies)
The Cosmic Snake - Hubble investigates clumps in this gravitational lensed galaxy (0 replies)
BL Tel (0 replies)
Living stromatolites discovered in Tasmanian World Heritage Area (8 replies)
Excess of antimatter positrons hitting Earth unlikely from pulsars - Dark matter ...? (0 replies)
Relativity holds up under scrutiny - again. Lorentz invariance meaurements stay true (0 replies)
LIGO announces detection of another black hole merger - GW170608 (0 replies)
PS1-10adi - an incredibly large explosion 2.4 billion light-years distant (2 replies)
Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting Ross 128 only 11 light years away (1 replies)
NASA InSight Mars Lander being readied for launch next year (2 replies)
China new high-energy neutron source facility creates opportunities (0 replies)
Zwicky Transient Facility First Light - engineered to catch transient events (0 replies)
Pushing the limits of photoreception in twilight conditions - new eye cell discovered (0 replies)
ALMA captures starbursting merger of two massive galaxies in the early Universe (5 replies)
Stars torn apart from black holes possible source of cosmic rays and neutrinos? (0 replies)
LHC's failure to detect new particles beyond Higgs erodes Japan accelerator plan (2 replies)
"This is the weirdest supernova we’ve ever seen" - the star that refuses to die (6 replies)
Mysterious geomagnetic "spike" 3000 years ago might offer clues to Earth's core (0 replies)
Search for elusive dark matter particles proves frustrating. - Nature (1 replies)
13.4 Jupiter-mass planet discovered in bulge of Milky Way - microlensed (3 replies)
CERN "bottom meson" decay experiment signals Standard Model might break (0 replies)
ALMA detects eight chemically-rich molecular clouds in NGC 253 (0 replies)
Large Millimeter Telescope detects second most distant star-forming galaxy to date (1 replies)
Is Life Most Likely Around Sun-like Stars? (4 replies)
Gravitational microlensing, TCP J05074264+2447555 (3 replies)
Quark fusion theorized University of Chicago - Nature (0 replies)
Cold dust belt discovered around Proxima Centauri (0 replies)
Discovery of big void in Great Pyramid using cosmic muons - Nature (0 replies)
Most massive planet to be transiting an M-dwarf discovered. Astronomers surprised (0 replies)
Quantum thermodynamics attempts to bend the rules - Nature (2 replies)
Protons & anti-protons appear to have same magnetic moment - why did matter dominate? (2 replies)
Comet C/2017 U1 - MPC compute may be first observed interstellar comet? (14 replies)
Google Maps Pluto (0 replies)
Infrared detector flaw delays ESA Euclid space telescope (0 replies)
Keeping tabs on virus H7N9 (0 replies)
Asteroid 2016 HO3 (0 replies)
Neural networked AlphaGo Zero teaches itself to become a Go master in three days (4 replies)
neutron star merger produced a bit of gold and platinum (4 replies)
Neutron star merger provides independent Hubble constant measurement (6 replies)
what, no ligo/ego/fermi yet? (1 replies)
Did star HD 240430 devour its own rocky planetary children? (7 replies)
Two groups claim to have found half the missing matter in the Universe (2 replies)
Bizarre Dwarf Planet Haumea Has Rings (1 replies)
How US power grid operators managed the solar eclipse (7 replies)
Stress-Testing a Hypothetical Global Power Grid (0 replies)
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 - Weiss, Barish and Thorne (0 replies)
Fourth Gravitational Wave Event Detected (4 replies)
SMC Classification (3 replies)
Isotope geochemistry (0 replies)
AAO SAMI instrument helps measure how galaxy's spin affects its shape (0 replies)
Most detailed star image yet (5 replies)
Supernovae Type 1a Distance Modulus (1 replies)
Researchers digitally store a movie into a living organism's DNA. Biocomputer created (1 replies)
Mantis Shrimp - the ultimate visual observer (2 replies)
JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus - IEEE Spectrum (12 replies)
History of EQ mounts (3 replies)
Can Elite Dangerous approach a star really that close ? (6 replies)
2014 MU69 - New Horizons' next stop (2 replies)
HOTT planet characterised with help from oz AAs (0 replies)
Another BH merger detected by LIGO (2 replies)
JUPITER - From the eyes of NASA Juno Spacecraft (2 replies)
Is the universe alive? (2 replies)
High Altitude Ballooning advice (5 replies)
Dark energy... illusion or not? (19 replies)
Citizen Science used in the search of Gravitational Waves (2 replies)
Uni Texas -electricity market change allows more renewables less reserves (0 replies)
ANU - Zooniverse - planet 9 (5 replies)
Astronomy Course free on-line by Duke University (2 replies)
Tesla Teams With Tiny Hawaiian Utility to Store Solar - IEEE (1 replies)
NASA plans to make a telescope out of the Sun (8 replies)
Can Ultraprecise Time Measurements Warp Space? (2 replies)
New Solar Scope (0 replies)
Single Atom Serves as World's Smallest Magnet and Data Storage Device (1 replies)
New lithium/sodium-glass battery shows promise says lithium-ion battery co-inventor (6 replies)
Liquid lens "smart glasses" prototyped at University of Utah (3 replies)
New Record: Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words Per Minute (0 replies)
Scientists Measure Single Quantum of Heat - Confirm Wiedemann–Franz Law (0 replies)
Four IEEE Fellows Share Queen Elizabeth £1 Million Prize for Digital Image Sensors (0 replies)
Is Betelgeuse really a red supergiant ? (1 replies)
Manipulating Nothingness - The Quantum World (5 replies)
Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens (LDAL) system concept (3 replies)
Red Nova prediction (1 replies)
wishing to compare two Sky Quality Meters with others' (2 replies)
Human Cells "Eat" Nanowires - prospect of exciting new therapies (1 replies)
ANU helps find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way (1 replies)
Engineering CMOS image sensors to improve speed and image quality (3 replies)
Unihedron Sky Quality Meter: observations in Victoria (4 replies)
Charters Towers: excellent winter site? (1 replies)
Stargazers Club of WA and meteor tracking (3 replies)
IEEE - Can Synthetic Inertia from Wind Power Stabilize Grids? (24 replies)
Saturn Nature Communications Paper (15 replies)
Do the bandwidth limitations of light prevent 'beaming people up'? (5 replies)
Accelerated expanding Universe.. or not? (24 replies)
Measuring size (4 replies)
Not the ISS and not a Meteor?? (16 replies)
How can three planets in our sky form a triangle? (28 replies)
Proxima Centauri has a planet in the goldilocks zone (14 replies)
Prof. Brian Cox – Journey into deep space (11 replies)
Strange flashes of lights over Sydney tonight (2 replies)
Exoplanets (3 replies)
A radio pulsing white dwarf binary star - brightness changes every 2 minutes (1 replies)
The Search for Dark Matter - Butterworth Article (20 replies)
Black Hole Question (21 replies)
The size of the observable universe (17 replies)
Has Science lost its way? (97 replies)
Brown dwarf in clouds (0 replies)
Hubble extended (17 replies)
new particle at nearly 4 sigma (41 replies)
NASA Juno Mission Trailer (2 replies)
Funding for astronomy and science in context ... (3 replies)
Second detection of gravitational waves by LIGO (6 replies)
Tours of the world's largest pro telescopes - good stuff! (15 replies)
John Sarkissian Parkes CSIRO Receives Queens Birthday Award (9 replies)
Jellyfish galaxies: Virgo cluster M90 science in H-alpha (0 replies)
LISA Pathfinder tests concept of space-based gravitational wave detector - IEEE (0 replies)
Team designing laser propelled nanocraft. Reach Alpha Centauri in 20 year flight time (21 replies)
A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant (0 replies)
spacex did it again!!! (3 replies)
A light push. (2 replies)
Wow (6 replies)
Supernova 2016adj in NGC 5128 - Science Thread (2 replies)
Review - "Stars and Stellar Evolution " , by De Boer & Seggewiss (1 replies)
Caught For The First Time: The Early Flash Of An Exploding Star (3 replies)
Review: Stellar Evolution books (easy Undergrad to early Graduate)(advanced Am.Astron (2 replies)
BOSS...largest structure in the Universe so far. (5 replies)
How true (16 replies)
Are you into comets? (7 replies)
Arecibo detects repeated fast radio burts (FRBs) for first time. Source is enigmatic. (10 replies)