Image of the week
Dimitri Douchin, PhD student, and his advisor at Macquarie University, Orsola de Marco, confirmed that the object known as Kn 61 is a planetary nebula. In this image, we can see the newly…
Inner planets did not form from the same material as the sun
Solar nebulae ‘fossils’ suggest that the sun and the inner planets did not form from the same materials, according to researchers.
The Milky Way’s mid-life crisis
With most of its star formation years behind it, the Milky Way is suffering from a mid-life crisis.
Student locates Universe’s missing mass
Scientists have been searching for the missing mass for decades.
Black hole jets snapped
The best-ever snapshot of galactic jets has been taken using multiple telescopes.
Deep fractures on Martian surface
Images from Mars Express reveal more about the surface of the red planet.
Spiders in space II
It sounds like it should be a black-and-white horror movie, not a scientific investigation.
Giant galaxies stopped growing seven billion years ago
New data reveals that the Universe’s biggest galaxies should have tripled in size.
Searching for the Milky Way’s elusive giants
Despite their size, the massive stars of the Milky Way are hard to spot.
Discovering Wassonite
On December 1969, the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition found several meteorites in the Yamato Mountains in Antarctica.
