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Sharjah’s World Space Week event starts today
Children can have a fun time during the programme. Gulf Today, Staff Reporter In celebration of World Space Week 2024, Sharjah Museums Authority is organising a special event under the theme “Space & Climate Change” between 9 and 12 October, at the Sharjah Science Museum. The event aims to educate the public about the latest…
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Yale Astronomical and Space Student Society turns students starry-eyed for Saturn
The Yale Astronomical and Space Student Society organized a stargazing event for students and New Haven residents last Saturday. Emilie Ma 11:03 pm, Oct 08, 2024 Contributing Reporter Emilie Ma, Contributing Photographer Last Saturday at 8 p.m., the Yale Astronomical and Space Student Society, or YASSS, hosted stargazing on Beinecke Plaza. Over 75 curious passersby…
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Kerala’s growing love for astronomy: From stargazing clubs to NASA aspirations
Not just for scholars “Part of this recent surge in interest for everything astronomy is due to its democratisation,” says Raju, of the Cochin Science and Astronomy Club. “It’s no longer just for scientists and scholars. Stargazing has become woven into tourism and hospitality, sustaining public interest,” he adds. Indeed, stargazing in Kerala is also…
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Research enabled by CSIRO telescope wins prestigious science prize
9 October 2024 Statement Professor Matthew Bailes, from OzGrav and Swinburne University, has been awarded the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his role in the discovery of ‘fast radio bursts’ and leadership in the field of radio astronomy. In 2007, Professor Bailes and his collaborators discovered the first known fast radio burst when…
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Record-breaking ancient spinning galaxy challenges cosmic evolution theories
The most distant and thus earliest rotating disk galaxy ever spotted has surprised astronomers and could challenge our theories of galactic evolution. Not only does it seemingly exist too early in the cosmos to be strongly spinning, the galaxy also shows hints of spiral arms similar to highly evolved “modern” galaxies like our own Milky…
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The dazzling Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is emerging in the night sky: How to see it
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is arriving at its projected pinnacle of brightness, followed by a transition into the evening sky. Currently, it displays the classic look for a bright comet, flaunting a starlike head and a prominent tail. As we crossed over from September into October, a consensus of observations reported on the Comet Observations Database (COBS)…
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Stargaze in stereo: Save $130 on the best astronomy binoculars for Prime Day
Amazon Prime Big Deals Days are here and you can now save $130 off the RRP on the Celestron SkyMaster 25×100 binoculars — our best for magnification pick in our best binoculars buying guide. Editor’s note Oct 9: We’re expecting this deal to end any time today, so act now if you want to stargaze…
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NASA delays Europa Clipper launch as it preps for Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton — pictured here in a NOAA satellite image — has intensified at near-record pace, fueled by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: CIRA/NOAA NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will have to wait out Hurricane Milton before it begins its five-year journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The spacecraft had been scheduled…
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Sharjah Museums Authority celebrates World Space Week 2024
The event aims to educate the public about the latest global developments in space and astronomy and their connection to improving climate change. It also highlights the UAE’s significant achievements in this field. World Space Week 2024 will feature a variety of activities, including lectures, workshops, planetarium shows, and astronomical observations. One of the highlights…
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Widespread Water Ice Deposits Discovered on the Moon
How much water ice could be present within the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) near the Moon’s south pole? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how water ice deposits could exist hundreds of miles beyond the PSRs located near the south…
