University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa - PICS: Joburg Planetarium gets R75m high-tech facelift [ITWeb, November 2022]

Title:

PICS: Joburg Planetarium gets R75m high-tech facelift

 

Author:

Sibahle Malinga

 

Published:

ITWeb, 22 November 2022

https://www.itweb.co.za/content/DZQ58MV8jeKvzXy2 

From the article:

Wits University and mining firm Anglo American have invested R75 million in funding the refurbishment, expansion and digitalisation of the 62-year-old Johannesburg Planetarium.

 

Rhodes University, South Africa - Rhodes University astronomers involved in the discovery of mystery clouds

Title:

Rhodes University astronomers involved in the discovery of mystery clouds

 

Published:

Rhodes University, 13 December 2021

https://www.ru.ac.za/latestnews/rhodesuniversityastronomersinvolvedinthediscoveryofmysteryclouds.html

 

From the article:

A collaboration between Rhodes University astronomers, University of Cape Town (UCT), and Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) based in Melbourne, Australia, has discovered a mysterious chain of hydrogen gas clouds with the size of a massive galaxy through the South African MeerKAT radio telescope. The international team is led by an Astronomer from the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and Rhodes University visiting Professor Gyula Józsa, SUT’s Professor Michelle Cluver, and Professor Thomas Jarrett from UCT.

Keele University, UK - Never-Before-Seen Radio Waves Detected Coming From Nearby Stars and Distant Galaxies [SciTechDaily, August 2021]

Title:

Never-Before-Seen Radio Waves Detected Coming From Nearby Stars and Distant Galaxies

 

By:

Keele University, United Kingdom

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 21 August 2021

https://scitechdaily.com/never-before-seen-radio-waves-detected-coming-from-nearby-stars-and-distant-galaxies/

 

From the article:

Led by Keele University PhD student Clara M. Pennock and Reader in Astrophysics, Dr. Jacco van Loon, the international team of researchers used the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope to “photograph” the Cloud at radio wavelengths and study the stellar structures within, taking some of the sharpest radio images of the Cloud ever recorded.

 

How Fast Is the Universe Expanding? New Hubble Constant Measurement Highlights Discrepancy Between Estimates of Our Cosmic Fate - by the University of California - Berkeley

Title of course:

How Fast Is the Universe Expanding? New Hubble Constant Measurement Highlights Discrepancy Between Estimates of Our Cosmic Fate

 

By:

University of California - Berkeley

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 9 March 2021

 

From the article:

Determining how rapidly the universe is expanding is key to understanding our cosmic fate, but with more precise data has come a conundrum: Estimates based on measurements within our local universe don’t agree with extrapolations from the era shortly after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.  

 

A new estimate of the local expansion rate — the Hubble constant, or H0 (H-naught) — reinforces that discrepancy.

 

Astronomers detect first potential radio emission from distant alien world [Sputnik, 18 December 2020]

Title:

Astronomers detect first potential radio emission from distant alien world

 

Author:

Gaby Arancibia

 

Published:

Sputnik, 18 December 2020

https://sputniknews.com/science/202012181081496234-astronomers-detect-first-potential-radio-emission-from-distant-alien-world/

From the article:

A group of astronomers recently published a study in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that detailed recordings of radio bursts emanating from a distant exoplanet situated toward the constellation Boötes.  

 

The potentially groundbreaking discovery, led by researchers from Cornell University, Paris Sciences et Lettres University and the Université d'Orléans, was made through the use of the Low Frequency Array, a large radio telescope network located in the Netherlands.

Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object - Scientists detect what is either the heaviest known neutron star or the least massive black hole ever recorded

Title:
Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object

Author:
Alex Fox

Published:
Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2020
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/distant-black-hole-collides-mysterious-object-180975193/

From the article:
Roughly 780 million years ago and a correspondingly distant 780 million light-years away, a strange stellar object was devoured by a black hole 23 times more massive than the sun.

Kyoto University - Enormous 'superflare' detected on nearby star

Title:
Enormous 'superflare' detected on nearby star
 
Source:
Kyoto University
 
Published:
Science Daily, 9 July 2020
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200709113523.htm
 
Summary:
Astronomers succeeded in detecting 12 stellar flare phenomena on AD Leonis. One of these flares was 20 times larger than those emitted by our own sun, categorizing it a 'superflare'. Subsequent data analysis presents new insight into these explosive phenomena.

Clyde’s Spot – South African amateur astronomer recognised for discovery on Jupiter

Title:
Clyde’s Spot – South African amateur astronomer recognised for discovery on Jupiter

Author:
Jan Vermeulen

Published:
Mybroadband, 4 July 2020
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/358529-clydes-spot-south-african-amateur-astronomer-recognised-for-discovery-on-jupiter.html

From the article:
There was excitement for South African amateur astronomer Clyde Foster this week when NASA’s Juno team referred to a discovery he made as “Clyde’s Spot”.

Foster is a retired chemical engineer who has become a passionate amateur astronomer specialising in planetary imaging.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (SciTechDaily, 3 July 2020) - Scientific Red Flag Spotted in Milky Way’s Dark, Dusty Center – Oddity Moving in the Direction of Earth

Title:
Scientific Red Flag Spotted in Milky Way’s Dark, Dusty Center – Oddity Moving in the Direction of Earth

By:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Published:
SciTechDaily, 3 July 2020
https://scitechdaily.com/scientific-red-flag-spotted-milky-ways-dark-dusty-center-oddity-moving-in-the-direction-of-earth/

From the article:
Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported in the July 3 edition of the journal Science Advances — could yield new clues to the fundamental source of our galaxy’s power, said L. Matthew Haffner of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Short Article re Astronomy & Astrophysics - New Decade, New Cosmic Priorities: Astrophysicists Want Big Science Goals for Astro2020

Title:
New Decade, New Cosmic Priorities: Astrophysicists Want Big Science Goals for Astro2020

Author:
Meghan Bartels 

Publised:
Forbes, 8 January 2020

From the article:
"Astrophysicists are deep in the throes of a process they conduct every 10 years to set scientific priorities for the field; the results could determine which missions fly and which don't.

By the end of this process, dubbed Astro2020, the discipline will have a thorough document meant to steer astronomy and astrophysics research between 2022 and 2032."

To read more:
https://www.space.com/astronomers-setting-decadal-priorities.html