Antarctica is the perfect place for stargazing
Dome A is officially the best place for astronomy.
Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It’s because turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere makes light emitted from ...
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Super-Earths discovered orbiting a red dwarf star
And in the habitable zone where water could exist.
Astronomers have discovered two super-Earth exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star 11 light years away from Earth, with...
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Astronomers find source of four radio bursts
Understanding the origins of mysterious signals.
Fast radio bursts are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy. The immensely powerful bursts of radiation appear ra...
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Hot stars plagued by giant magnetic spots
They’re like sunspots but not, new data suggest.
Astronomers have found what they describe as “a plague of magnetic spots” on the surface of extremely hot stars hidde...
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A ‘cosmic ring of fire’ from 11 billion years ago
Collision between galaxies created rare ring galaxy.
Nearly 11 billion light years away lurks a super-rare type of galaxy that bears the scars of a galactic battle. Rathe...
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The heartbeats of pulsing stars
Inner workings of young stars have been disentangled.
By listening to the beating hearts of stars, astronomers have for the first time identified a rhythm of life for a cl...
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Fireball over SA could have been a “Minimoon”
Minimoon spotted as it exploded in the atmosphere in 2016.
Rocks explode in Earth’s atmosphere fairly regularly, and at first glance a bolide spotted over South Australia in 20...
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Star flung across the galaxy
Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is the culprit.
A star travelling through the Milky Way at more than six million km/h has been discovered by a team of international ...
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A monster galaxy found lurking in the shadows
The footprints of a monster galaxy 12.5 billion years in the past.
Astronomers have accidentally discovered the footprints of a monster galaxy in the early Universe that has never been...