Known affectionately as The Pope’s astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno is a meteor and planetary scientist, and Curator at the Vatican Observatory, where he works as part of a team of 12 papal astronomers. The 60 …
Astronomers using Chile’s array of radio telescopes known as ALMA, have observed tell-tale signs of stars forming closer to the black hole located 27,000 light-years away at our Galactic Centre, than ever seen before. Surrounding …
Stargazers across the northern hemisphere are currently gearing up to witness the oldest recorded meteor shower in history, known as the Lyrid meteor shower. Chinese observations of this annual shower dates back 2,700 years, and …
The European Space Agency (ESA) has captured a rare astronomical event after its Integral space observatory witnessed either a small star or a big planet being consumed by a black hole located in galaxy NGC …
On average, a supernova explosion will occur once every 50 years in a galaxy the size of our Milky Way and radiate more energy than 10 billion suns. They are also the primary source of …
Since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, which was bizarrely named PSR 1257 +12, a further 841 have been added to the list with new discoveries becoming quite a regular occurrence. However, the latest …
On February 15th, 2013, a huge 150 foot asteroid called ‘2012 DA14’ is due to pass so close to the Earth that it will travel under our man-made orbiting satellites. A potential collision by the …
Thankfully times have changed since Galileo in 1632 claimed the Earth revolved around the Sun and was subsequently tried by the Pope for heresy and sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house …
At a distance of 640 light years from Earth, recent announcements that Orion‘s second brightest star Betelgeuse was about to go supernova would mean that the red giant would have had to have exploded in …
Astronomy professor Doug Finkbeiner, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, speculated recently that the 25,000 light-year long gamma rays emissions north and south of the Milky Way’s core might in fact be caused by an …
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