News Polarised light shows magnetic field around M87’s black hole 24 March 2021 Astronomy Now The Event Horizon Telescope collaborations provides a fresh look, in polarised light, at M87’s supermassive black hole.
News Three more space vistas turned into sonic tapestries 24 March 2021 Astronomy Now Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes is turned into sound in NASA’s latest data sonification series.
News Using Hubble to monitor changing seasons on Saturn 23 March 2021 Astronomy Now Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are monitoring seasonal transitions in Saturn’s turbulent atmosphere.
News Gravitational waves shed light on maximum neutron star mass 22 March 2021 Astronomy Now What is the maximum mass for a neutron star, the point beyond which a black hole forms? Gravity waves may hold clues.
News Now you see it, now you don’t: what happened to Mars’ water? 16 March 2021 Astronomy Now New research indicates most of the water that once flowed and pooled on Mars may still be there, locked in minerals making up the planet’s crust.
News Hubble Space Telescope out of safe mode after software glitch 15 March 2021 Astronomy Now Engineers resolved a software glitch aboard the Hubble Space Telescope but ran into trouble with a motor used to open and close its aperture door.
News Solving a cosmic (ray) mystery 12 March 2021 Astronomy Now New research indicates the most energetic cosmic rays may be generated in young star clusters, not supernovae as previously theorised.
News Red hypergiant mimics Betelguese with dusty dimming on a vast scale 7 March 2021 Astronomy Now Red hypergiant star mimics Betelgeuse with dust-related dimming, but on a vastly larger scale.
News Evidence grows for pulsar at the heart of famed supernova remnant 1 March 2021 Astronomy Now Astronomers find more evidence for an obscured pulsar at the heart of the famed SN 1987A supernova remnant.
News Juno mission extended, will now study Jupiter’s moons and rings 26 February 2021 Astronomy Now NASA”s Juno mission to Jupiter has been extended for multiple flybys of three Galilean moons and the giant planet’s faint rings.