Astronomy and Amateur Science [Archive]

Unusal Object discovered that emits radio and x-rays regularly (0 replies)
Amateur Science Projects (3 replies)
New night vision camera design takes inspiration from cat's eyes (2 replies)
Company Claims Room-Temp, Low-Pressure Hydrogen Storage Breakthrough (0 replies)
Date and time that Io is eclipsed by Jupiter (4 replies)
Newly discovered antibody protects against all COVID-19 variants (2 replies)
Zeta Ophiuchi's cousin? (1 replies)
New supercomputer simulations model X-ray radiation from black hole surroundings (1 replies)
Hubble finds strong evidence for intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri (0 replies)
Two new Sky Candy articles on supernova remnants (0 replies)
China Moon Mission (0 replies)
Two new articles from the illustratred journal "Sky Candy" (1 replies)
Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly (2 replies)
Bird Flu in Raw Cow Milk Has Killed Farm Cats in a Concerning First (11 replies)
OpenAI's Voice Tool can clone a voice from 15 seconds of recorded input (2 replies)
Variable Star Observer (0 replies)
Largest galaxy survey supports Cold Dark Matter accelerating expansion model (0 replies)
Nature :- A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming (5 replies)
OpenAI launches video model that can instantly create short clips from text prompts (0 replies)
Sidereal Time and Right Ascension (0 replies)
Euclid space telescope article (1 replies)
Holography : Change sharpness of any object in an image once it has been captured (2 replies)
CERN experiment - how antimatter behaves under gravity (1 replies)
Parker Solar Probe, CME closeup (1 replies)
World's oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia, dating 476,000 years (2 replies)
Starship Integrated Flight Test No.2 (1 replies)
10 Network story on ALPO award (7 replies)
8.7-million-year-old fossil ape from Türkiye poses questions on human origins (5 replies)
Cesium levels in wild boar meat in Bavaria both from Chernobyl and weapons testing (1 replies)
Sydney Uni scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100bn (0 replies)
2023 ALPO Walter H. Haas Observers Award (10 replies)
High-numerical-aperture EUV lithography (0 replies)
Starlink etc. (0 replies)
Radio amateurs 'hack' a nasa spacecraft (2 replies)
Are observations of the CMB and JWST early galaxies compatible? (12 replies)
First hints of 'background' gravitational waves from supermassive black holes (1 replies)
Macquarie University co-develop 1.7 petabits per second optical fiber (0 replies)
Researchers warn that Sucralose artificial sweetener can cause damage to DNA (1 replies)
Oldest stone tools found in Africa unlikely to be from our ancestors (11 replies)
Astronomers Say Mysterious Dark Galaxy, FAST J0139+4328, Emits No Visible Light (3 replies)
Now that is a wide field… (1 replies)
Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda (0 replies)
Marine life also affected by light pollution (1 replies)
Machine Learning Algorithm Accurately Classifies 1,000 Type Ia Supernovae (1 replies)
Glow-in-the-dark millipedes discovered in Australia for the first time (0 replies)
Giant satellite outshines stars, sparking fresh concerns for astronomers (5 replies)
Looking for the tell-tale photometry of red supergiants before they go supernova (0 replies)
Largest amateur telescope on Earth (5 replies)
Wolf-Rayet + O-type supergiant tango (2 replies)
3,200 mega pixel camera (3 replies)
Saturn ICARUS paper (10 replies)
Solar Observations wanted (0 replies)
Discovery of planet covered in water? (0 replies)
JWST detects Carbon Dioxide in Exo planet Atmo (2 replies)
New Cray EX supercomputer in WA gets to work processing ASKAP SNR data into images (0 replies)
Huntsman telescope (3 replies)
Dormant Black Hole lurking nearby (1 replies)
GPT-3 AI | DALL-E 2 AI | Emerson AI : Original illustrated children's book as output (63 replies)
Launch from Aussie soil... (3 replies)
Largest-known bacterium found in mangrove — and you can see it without a microscope (0 replies)
Imagen AI takes text description input and "paints" picture as the output (2 replies)
Open cluster King 2 image request (0 replies)
Super massive black hole and high luminosity quasar discovered in Centaurus (2 replies)
The Roman - NASA Mega Hubble (3 replies)
20220602 Call for Pluto observations (2 replies)
Sunrise III - gets first light (0 replies)
Astronomical Seeing "Explained"...... (4 replies)
Life from space (0 replies)
2022 Berenice and Arthur Page Medal (12 replies)
Fermilab claims W Boson measured heavier than it suppose to be. Upsets Standard Model (3 replies)
Google PaLM language model AI announced. Hints at being very impressive (4 replies)
Jwst (4 replies)
Infrasound Detection of Meteors (27 replies)
Are you prepared for the next Bright Supernova (1 replies)
researchers solved the blurring effect of UV radiation in our atmosphere (5 replies)
The James Webb Space Telescope deployment. (1 replies)
Recently Discovered StDr56 - Goblet of Fire Nebula (6 replies)
Comprehensive lectures....early evolution of animals. (2 replies)
I don't know about clouds..... (0 replies)
Zooniverse Exoplanets (0 replies)
'Sky Candy', from 'Nightfall' DSO journal in South Africa (0 replies)
NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to be upgraded (2 replies)
Amazing photos from space (5 replies)
Black holes (11 replies)
The Australian Cube Sats are up (0 replies)
A chat with the GPT-3 AI about the forthcoming 100-trillion parameter GPT-4 AI (7 replies)
ITER Talks: Introduction to the ITER nuclear fusion research project (video) (23 replies)
China to fire up prototype thorium molten salt reactor in Sept. Commercial by 2030. (6 replies)
New long-lived exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered (2 replies)
Universe could be a Donut (14 replies)
Why do spiral galaxies make bars? (2 replies)
Ophiuchus has always been the 13th sign? (11 replies)
Occultation observations of C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein (3 replies)
2005 Nobel Prize technology used to measure greenhouse gasses in novel way (0 replies)
An engineering tour of ITER, the world's largest fusion experiment tokamak (2 replies)
Diffraction spikes in Newt's (15 replies)
Astronomers believe 2018zd and Crab Nebula were elusive Type III supernovae (0 replies)
Magical quantum topological insulators give rise to first topological laser (1 replies)
Some Special Solar Scenes (0 replies)
Hubble tension - astronomer hopeful there is no tension after Red Giant measurements (7 replies)
Storing renewable energy into carbon ceramic blocks heated to over 1500°C (1 replies)
The Australian ultra precise Sapphire Clock helps Jindalee Radar see even clearer (0 replies)
GPT-3 - Intelligent conversations with an AI (11 replies)
Engineers prototype refrigerator that works in zero G for flight to Mars (0 replies)
Something moving in 47 Tuc? (24 replies)
Silicon carbide circuitry to withstand the hellish conditions on Venus (0 replies)
Did I image an Asteroid? Need a bit of help (10 replies)
Observatory Code (2 replies)
New force of nature? (2 replies)
Keep watching Eta Carinae (6 replies)
Detected my first (previously known) Exoplanet! (17 replies)
NASA lands Perseverance Rover on Mars (5 replies)
New article from S Africa's 'Nightfall' on UGC 12588 (1 replies)
Titan (2 replies)
temp variations Mars vs Earth (6 replies)
Starship SN9 Static Fire Completed (5 replies)
Fornax A - shells, massive halo and recently identified faint loops and tidal tails (2 replies)
Space X SN8 Static Fire Completed (1 replies)
The 'cinnamon bun' galaxy name isn't the only thing weird about it (13 replies)
Space X SN8 static fire test successful (4 replies)
Large impact crater discovered beneath the surface in West Australia (1 replies)
First exoplanet candidate fully discovered by amateur astronomers (0 replies)
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers - Canadian study (4 replies)
Zooniverse - great learning tool (2 replies)
Space X Dragon Coming Home (0 replies)
Nature article from Southern stellar streams Spectroscopic Survey (0 replies)
Space X Starship SN5 Static Fire Test (14 replies)
Does anyone know the cause of this periodic anomaly near the Keyhole Neb? (6 replies)
Sunfish (2 replies)
Largest 3D map of the Universe released filling in 11 billion year gap in the middle (1 replies)
Southern Cross (13 replies)
Is Planet Nine a grapefruit-sized black hole in our Solar System? Search is on. (4 replies)
MIT experiment detects the quantum noise movement in LIGO's 40kg mirrors (5 replies)
Betelgeuse dimming most likely caused by giant star spots - new study (5 replies)
Take part in citizen science (0 replies)
"Kinetic misalignment” of axion field accounts for dark matter? (0 replies)
The "Pillars" are no more. (4 replies)
Most massive quasar known in early universe discovered. 1.5e9 solar mass black hole (0 replies)
Dreams of an even bigger collider than the LHC (1 replies)
Computer simulations. Did Betelegeuse form from a binary merger? (0 replies)
Space Truckin' - Zombie Satellites Return From the Graveyard (3 replies)
DESTINY+ spacecraft and ground observations to explore links between NEO asteroids (0 replies)
Harvard astrophysicists begin new study to search for technosignatures (0 replies)
More evidence that planet formation starts very, very early in the life of a star (0 replies)
Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Dog Now Available for USD74,500 (4 replies)
NASA Perseverance Mars rover ready for July 20th 2020 launch date (1 replies)
Periodic Fast Radio Burst (FRB) finally discovered (0 replies)
Supergiant Atmosphere of Antares Revealed by Radio Telescopes (1 replies)
Rocket Lab's Electron June 13th 2020 launch video (1 replies)
Ingredients for Life Appear in Stellar Nurseries Long Before Stars are Born (1 replies)
South Africa's 'Nightfall' journal is out (3 replies)
A quick tutorial on one way to estimate the mass of the Milky Way (0 replies)
Preparations for Square Kilometre Array construction in WA complete. 2021 build start (0 replies)
Planet "Proxima Centauri c" confirmation claim using 25 year old Hubble data (0 replies)
Astronomers capture a pulsar ‘powering up’ (0 replies)
Chandra video catches black hole hurling hot material into space at near light speed (1 replies)
Chicxulub impact crater may have harbored a vast and long-lived hydrothermal system (0 replies)
New German research observatory will track near-Earth satellites and space debris (0 replies)
ESPRESSO spectrograph confirms Earth-sized planet around Proxima Centauri (1 replies)
FRB's unveil Universe's 'missing' ordinary matter (0 replies)
Asteroid that created Chicxulub crater arrived at the deadliest possible angle (4 replies)
MAVEN Maps Electric Currents around Mars that are Fundamental to Atmospheric Loss (0 replies)
A giant galaxy in the young Universe with a massive ring discovered (1 replies)
Recurrent impacts of Sagittarius dwarf triggered star formation in Milky Way (1 replies)
First known Jupiter Trojan asteroid to have sprouted a comet-like tail discovered (0 replies)
Math and a very Knotty problem. (2 replies)
New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet (2 replies)
Weather balloons (0 replies)
South Africa’s MeerKAT solves mystery of ‘X-galaxies’ (1 replies)
All Terminator Moon (1 replies)
Astronomers speculate on how will humanity first discover extraterrestrial life? (4 replies)
Observations of Betelgeuse’s Dimming from the Stratosphere using SOFIA (0 replies)
SOFIA under the microscope (0 replies)
Einstein's Photo electric Effect in your radio receiver (8 replies)
NASA, parallax Program (13 replies)
Black hole event horizon a series of nested rings (1 replies)
What A Lunar Or Solar Eclipse Would Look Like From The Surface Of The Moon (0 replies)
Pi Day how many decimal points? (6 replies)
The race to develop rapid, portable tests for coronavirus (1 replies)
Theoreticians propose Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) Axion could explain a lot (3 replies)
Satellites, Data Mining, AI Monitor Chinese Economy’s Reaction to Coronavirus (2 replies)
How a Potential Coronavirus-Killing Airplane Sterilizer Was Born (6 replies)
Researchers claim they have discovered first evidence of protein inside a meteorite (1 replies)
Radio fossil of largest known explosion since the Big Bang discovered (1 replies)
Quantum dot image sensors (1 replies)
Energy out of thin air ..... (0 replies)
Anyone following the news about the Radcliffe Wave? (0 replies)
Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly? UC Berkeley (6 replies)
Science project (0 replies)
The Northern Lights - New Ribbon Wave Form (0 replies)
Astronomers discover class of strange objects near our galaxy’s enormous black hole (1 replies)
Living 'robots' designed using evolutionary algorithms on a supercomputer (1 replies)
magical photons (25 replies)
New evidence claims key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error (7 replies)
Two stars; perplexed I am (5 replies)
IBM Research unveils new battery technology with remarkable specifications (1 replies)
MAMBO-9:most distant dusty star-forming galaxy observed without gravitational lensing (0 replies)
Near-Earth Object Surveillance Mission - an asteroid hunting space telescope (3 replies)
40 billion solar-mass black hole discovered at heart of Abell 85 central galaxy (0 replies)
Scientists crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun’s magnetic waves (1 replies)
Researchers identify a minimoon fireball over South Australia (0 replies)
Amazing^2 (Hubble) ... (1 replies)
Amazing... (0 replies)
The mysterious 70 solar-mass black hole, LB1, 15,000 light years away (0 replies)
Does dark energy exist? Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration (3 replies)
Final SKA Engineering Design Meeting Kicks Off In Shanghai (0 replies)
Wolfe Creek impact crater much younger than previously thought (0 replies)
A new antibiotic found in the gut of a tiny worm may be best hope to fight superbugs (0 replies)
Neutron Star found in 1987A (4 replies)
Murchison Widefield Array discovers 24 new SNR in the Galactic Centre (0 replies)
NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in ‘Dance of Avoidance’ (3 replies)
NASA opens sealed Apollo sample ahead of Artemis missions (0 replies)
China Says Its Mars Landing Technology Is Ready for 2020 (1 replies)
Saturn Icarus paper (1 replies)
Investigating the Hubble Constant Tension -- Two Numbers in the Standard Cosmological (0 replies)
Washington Post article summarises the Hubble tension (1 replies)
Academic Earth (3 replies)
Project Tuva (2 replies)
Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy (0 replies)
Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Signs Contract For Telescope Structure (0 replies)
A new spectroscopic investigation of Terzan 9 using MUSE (0 replies)
Using accurate planetary body positions to constrain the mass of the graviton (0 replies)
What is a photon? (33 replies)
Article on why the speed of gravity must equal the speed of light (3 replies)
Radio Emission in NGC 253 (2 replies)
finely-tuned universe (9 replies)
Putting the “bang” in the Big Bang - MIT theoreticians propose the "reheating" period (5 replies)
Chandra Spots a Mega-Cluster of Galaxies in the Making - Abell 1758 (0 replies)
Time lapse video of the Mars 2020 rover being lowered onto all six wheels at JPL (0 replies)
Curiosity Rover's latest breathtaking "selfie" shows it doing chemistry on Mars (4 replies)
Celebrating the invention of the common ionization-type smoke detector alarm (0 replies)
Keck measures lensed quasars. Confirmation universe's rate of expansion increasing (2 replies)
Broken Hill Astronomer published in Nature (13 replies)
The wonderful world of mucus (1 replies)
a NEW view of NGC3717 - Hubble (0 replies)
Perpetual motion accepted in astronomy - why ? (90 replies)
Supermassive black hole at center of Milky Way more active than thought (0 replies)
Scientists Observe Year-long Plateaus in Decline of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves (8 replies)
Modelling: India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill millions, threaten global starvation (3 replies)
Stony-iron meteor caused August impact flash at Jupiter (1 replies)
First Stars (0 replies)
I felt sad after this video . (21 replies)
Check your compasses (6 replies)
Supernova leaves total annihilation (2 replies)
Global Meteor Network... anybody? (8 replies)
How the Meteorite got its shape (2 replies)
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course (2 replies)
Gravitational-wave & radio observations of merging neutron stars - a new cosmic ruler (0 replies)
Biggest seaweed bloom in the world linked to Amazon deforestation/fertillzer (1 replies)
CSIRO team pinpoint one-off Fast Radio Burst (FRB) using ASKAP (0 replies)