Milky Way’s magnetic fingerprint ESA and the Planck Collaboration Our galaxy’s magnetic field is revealed in a new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck satellite. This image was compiled from the first all-sky observations of “polarized“ light emitted by interstellar dust in the Milky Way. Light is a familiar form of energy, and …
This artist’s illustration shows the hypervelocity star cluster HVGC-1 escaping from the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87. HVGC-1 is the first runaway star cluster discovered by astronomers. It is fated to drift through intergalactic space. Galaxy M87 has thrown an entire star cluster toward us at more than 2 million mph, and it’s now on a …
Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and its jets. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger An international team of scientists led by the University of Leicester has discovered for the first time that one of the most powerful events in our universe — gamma-ray bursts (GRB) — behave differently than previously thought. The study …
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Observers in southern Australia will witness the Moon “take a bite” out of the Sun on April 29, just as those in Europe saw January 4, 2011. Hinrich Bäsemann By Liz Kruesi | Published: Thursday, April 24, 2014 While a ring of sunlight is visible to the penguins in Antarctica, human observers in southern Australia …
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The Hermanus Astronomy Centre recently erected a pair of back-to-back sundials in Swallow Park in the centre of Hermanus as part of the upgrading of this historical public park by the Ward committee. Since these two are intended to be the first of many different design sundials to be erected in Hermanus by the HAC, …
