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Atoms are being smashed by a powerful linear accelerator.
Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed...
Before our eyes, one of the brightest stars in the sky is changing and dying.
Nothing lasts forever, including the stars in our night sky. One of the brighter and more notable stars in our sky is Betelgeuse, the...
Why does the Moon appear to be close one night and far away the next?
Some nights the Moon seems really close and bigger than usual.
One summer evening when I was a child, I remember being mystified and then...
Astronomers have been perplexed by ‘odd radio circles,’ which are most likely explosions from faraway galaxies.
In 2019, my colleagues and I discovered spooky glowing rings in the sky using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia. The rings were...
Four ways AI is helping astronomers learn about the universe
Astronomy is all about data. The universe is getting bigger and so too is the amount of information we have about it. But some of...
