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90 years ago today Pluto was discovered – just the third planet to be found in modern times.
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90 years ago today Pluto was discovered – just the third planet to be found in modern times.
New Horizon was sent off in 2005 to inspect Pluto with a stretch goal of flying past a Kuiper Belt object to help astronomers gain a better understanding of the early solar system. It turns out, there’s new lessons to be learnt…
Bob Bakish – ViacomCBS CEO – confirmed that they will be extending our beloved science fiction franchise “across the house.”
For the first time, the US military has confirmed that it’s satellites are being interfered with by Russian inspection satellites. The astronomical community has known about this for a while though, and Dr Tucker and Matt discuss this on today’s in depth topic.
Last week YouTuber Ketwolski stumbled upon a little game some folks have been having with the vocal minority.
Plenty to talk about in today’s Talkin Science with Dr Brad Tucker. We’ve got the details on SpaceX’s latest Starlink launch, another resupply mission successfully on the way to the Space Station, Pluto’s birthday and more!
Boeing is suffering at the moment, not only is their 737-Max aircraft grounded following two deadly crashes last year, with no end in sight, but now the December uncrewed Starliner
Complementing NASA’s Solar Parker Probe and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii is the latest addition to the solar system probe fleet – the Solar Orbiter.
As astronomers focus on SpaceX’s satellite internet delivery plan involving thousands of satellites, another company – OneWeb – is powering ahead with plans to deliver a rival offering.
SpaceX’s Starlink project has some serious competition with OneWeb launching 34 satellites last week in it’s effort it put over 600 internet-beaming capable probes in a low Earth orbit. Another solar observatory sets a course for our closest star and we learn a little more about Boeing’s Starliner troubles on today’s Talkin’ Science – it’s February 11 2020.
The fabric of space-time got a little timey wimey – wibbly wobbly with the discovery of a spinning binary star system causing a real drag. Dr Brad Tucker and Matt
We’ve gotten our first detailed look at the surface of the Sun. Dr Brad Tucker and Matt Miller discuss this awesome view which is giving us insight into our closest
The crowded Earth orbit is posing serious hazards to spacecraft, with last week seeing the potential explosive destruction of two old satellites. You can find us everywhere you are… grab
In headlines this week, Brad and Matt reflect on the Spitzer Space Telescope and discuss NASA’s goal post shifting due to their budget oversight. You can find us everywhere you
The first month of the new decade has seen some pretty exciting growth for this humble little website.
As we say goodbye to one of the four great telescopes of NASA – Spitzer – Aussie astronomers have discovered a curious aberration in the fabric of space-time.
An accomplished international photographer, Charles Brooks, has captured dazzling new images of one component of the main ring at the Australian Synchrotron and provided an inside view of the electron’s path when it is used. A synchrotron engineer converted radio waves produced in the vacuum chamber into sound files.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range completing a dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA at the end of February.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.
An international study led by Australian astronomers has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date in three new research papers. The study also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave detector and found further evidence of a “background” of these invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some major mysteries of the universe.
Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
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The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range at the end of February. I spoke with Varda
An accomplished international photographer, Charles Brooks, has captured dazzling new images of one component of the main ring at the Australian Synchrotron and provided an inside view of the electron’s path when it is used. A synchrotron engineer converted radio waves produced in the vacuum chamber into sound files.
The Varda Space Industries W-2 capsule safely returned to Earth at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range completing a dual-purpose mission with payloads from the United States Air Force and NASA at the end of February.
New Marsquake data could help solve one of the solar system’s biggest mysteries, Saturn’s rings might be deceptively old – based on what we thought
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Distant neutron stars typically spin a full 360 degrees within seconds. However, a new type of ‘radio transient object’ – so called as they are detected in radio waves – has emerged that rotate much more slowly. In the time it takes this cosmic lighthouse to rotate you could watch Interstellar twice before it completes a full spin.
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