Victoria Grinberg, who is the first “liaison scientist” at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, talks to Hamish Johnston about her interest in binary stars, why she wants to make astronomy more sustainable and her love of scientific illustrations Bold vision Victoria Grinberg, who trained as a physicist, is currently an X-ray astronomer at…

Winterton 2022 By Ivan Morris Poxton Local Democracy Reporting Service A famous space scientist has been honoured by a statue outside his former school in North Lincolnshire. Wallace Sargent’s work helped advance knowledge of black holes and the formation of galaxies. The son of a steelworker and a cleaner he was born in 1935 and…

Deep space exploration at Lockheed Martin Space Division is the subject of this month’s Estes Valley Astronomical Society (EVAS) meeting. EVAS, in conjunction with The Estes Park Memorial Observatory is offering a free public open house and lecture on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. The goal of EVAS is to promote amateur astronomy and education in the Estes valley. Lockheed…

Sharon Bishop-Baldwin It’s a wonder no one was dizzy during Friday night’s Astronomy Night event at the Keystone Ancient Forest. After all, the Earth was spinning on its axis at about 800 mph. But the only obvious revolutions were the heads of the visitors spinning in amazement at what they were seeing through the lenses…

Since 2007, astronomers have been monitoring the sky for quick pulses of radio waves known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Their best guess for where these bursts come from? A type of super magnetic dead stars: Magnetars.  Usually, an FRB lasts for a brief thousandth of a second, releasing as much energy in that short…

Astronomers have discovered an important step in star formation, hitherto unknown, that could save infant stars from ripping themselves apart. The rescue mechanism is associated with “cosmic winds” that blow around clouds of gas and dust — and it’s these clouds that eventually collapse to form hot and dense stellar bodies. Plus, the clouds manage…

Webb Images New Jet Stream on Jupiter The James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has revealed a high-speed jet stream sitting over Jupiter’s equator, above the main cloud decks. Using a wavelength of 2.12 microns to observe altitudes between 20-35 km above Jupiter’s cloudtops, researchers spotted several areas where wind speeds change with height…

The Royal Astronomical Society is delighted that seven Fellows of the Society have won prizes and medals, courtesy of the Sir Arthur Clarke awards (the Arthurs) and the Institute of Physics awards. Winners of the 2023 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award Professor John Zarnecki, former President of the RAS, receives the Lifetime Achievement…

An international team of astronomers has carried out what is believed to be the largest ever cosmological computer simulation, tracking not only dark but also ordinary matter (such as planets, stars and galaxies), giving us a glimpse into how our Universe may have evolved. The FLAMINGO simulations calculate the evolution of all components of the…

So far, only distant asteroids from beyond the orbit of Mars were considered a source of near-Earth asteroids, said Renu Malhotra, a planetary sciences professor at The University of Arizona  and also a senior author of the paper.  “We are now establishing that the moon is a more likely source of Kamo`oalewa,” Malhotra said.  The…