“ The RadioAstron telescope’s resolution is so good, it could pick out a snooker ball on the moon” If you thought black holes were strange, try a white one. Katia Moskvitch joins the hunt Thar she blows PHYSICS is full of opposites. For every action, there’s a reaction; every positive charge has …
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An artist’s conception of a gamma-ray burst. European Southern Observatory Astronomers might be on the brink of developing a new rung on the cosmic distance ladder. Astronomy is a discipline pursued at unimaginable distances. And yet actually measuring the distance to a nearby exoplanet, or to a galaxy shining at us from the dark depths …
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen here as it looked 9.6 billion years ago, this monster elliptical galaxy breaks the previous record-holder by 200 million years. These “lensing” galaxies are so massive that their gravity bends, magnifies, and distorts light …
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National Science Week 2 August to 9 August Observe interesting geographical areas of the Moon using binoculars and telescopes on 8 and 9 August from 5.30 to 8pm at the Wine Village Wine and Food Festival (cnr R43/Hemel-en-Aarde Road, opposite Engen) weather permitting Hosted by the amateur astronomers of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre Attendance is …
Gamma Rays are the most energetic form of radiation and are produced by the most extreme objects (such as neutron stars and pulsars, supernova explosions, and regions around black holes) in the Universe. A single object undergoing a gamma ray burst can momentarily shine 10 x brighter than an entire galaxy which contains hundreds of …
