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The Pope’s Astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno

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 …

Young Stars Form Near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

James Miller

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 Ready For April’s Lyrid Meteor Shower

James Miller

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 …

Black Hole Swallows Giant Planet In Virgo

James Miller

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 …

Mini Supernova Discovered In Which Star Survives

James Miller

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 …

FAQs About Astronomy and Space

James Miller

Share the joys of science, astronomy and discovery in this section packed with interesting topics and facts. The articles are split into six categories, namely popular searches, stars & constellations, wonders of science, observing, time …

Earth’s Nearest Planetary Neighbour Discovered

James Miller

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 …

Giant Asteroid To Pass Under Satellites On Feb 15th, 2013

James Miller

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 …

Vatican Astronomer Sees Link Between Science And Religion

James Miller

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 …

Betelgeuse About To Go Supernova?

James Miller

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 …