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Hunting whistlers in the bush

August 5, 2015
Deep in the Australian Outback, testbed studies for the Square Kilometer Array have made it possible to survey plasma structures, one of the four fundamental states of matter, in the...

Thor’s Helmet

August 4, 2015
The distinctive shape of the nebula NGC 2359 has led to it also being known as Thor's Helmet, resembling the headgear of the Norse God (and Marvel superhero).

Lagoon Nebula

July 30, 2015
The stellar nursery of the Lagoon Nebula lies in the constellation of Sagittarius is situated some 5,000 light years away.

Kepler mission discovers an Earth-like planet

July 27, 2015
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has confirmed the first near-Earth-sized planet orbiting another star like our Sun. NASA scientists suggest the newly discovered planet – named Kepler-452b – is 60% larger...

Big leap into Neptune’s magnetic field

July 17, 2015
By combining 26-year old data with supercomputer simulations, scientists have modelled Neptune’s magnetic field in detail. Astronomers at Imperial College London used the data from Voyager 2 and discovered that...

Pluto’s ice secrets revealed

July 16, 2015
Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed an abundance of methane ice on Pluto. Mission scientists studied infrared spectral images of Pluto taken by the Ralph instrument on board...

NASA’s probe reaches Pluto

July 15, 2015
After more than nine years and a 3 billion mile journey, NASA’s New Horizon mission spacecraft has made its closest approach to Pluto. The probe captured the most detailed images...

New Director for ESA

July 15, 2015
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the new Director General of The European Space Agency (ESA). Mr Woerner – former chief of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center – has taken...

Eduardo Miranda and musical slime mould

July 15, 2015
A musical ‘duet’ between slime mould and a scientist creates beautiful and unusual sounds. Professor Eduardo Miranda at Plymouth University, a composer working at the crossroads of music and science,...

Spiral Planetary Nebula

June 26, 2015
The strange S-shape that gives the Spiral Planetary Nebula its common name is seen clearly in this composite image.

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