Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade into Oblivion
The High-Z Supernova Search Team and the Supernovae H0 for the Equation of State (SH0ES) Team have released a remarkable time-lapse video of supernova SN2018gv.
Web of the Giant — Large-Scale Structure Around Distant Quasar
A consortium of major observatories, including the Very Large Telescope array (VLT), Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBT), and W. M. Keck Observatory, have been used to observe a massive structure in the early universe.
School-Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth
Once again, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered mere days before it safely passed by Earth.
Sounds from Around the Milky Way
Astronomers have been periodically trying to find ways to bring the beauty of the night sky to the visually impaired through a variety of different means.
New Chronology of the Saturn System
Our own Planetary Science Institute announced a new timeline for the moons of Saturn.
Squeezed Light Makes Virgo’s Mirrors Jitter
We return to a story from last July when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) LIGO Laboratory announced that they had successfully detected quantum fluctuations in the positions of the roughly 40kg mirrors that are part of the gravitational wave detectors in the US.
Could Life Exist Deep Underground on Mars?
Researchers at Harvard and the Florida Institute of Technology analyzed the possibility of being able to find life, or evidence of past life, deep underground the surfaces of rocky worlds like Mars and the Moon.
Ring Around M87* Black Hole Shadow Glitters
We have an update on the Event Horizon Telescope’s observations of the supermassive black hole in the core M87.
Australia’s first-ever launch of a commercial space-capable rocket
On September 19th at around 02:00 UTC, a privately-owned Australian company called Southern Launch successfully lifted a small payload on a suborbital mission.
Long March 4B launches new ocean observation satellite
On September 21 at 5:40 UTC, China launched a Long March 4B rocket carrying the Haiyang-2C to orbit from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northern China.
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