Collaborate Disseminate
What do you get when you put a one-meter parabolic dish, an SDR, a Raspberry Pi, and an H1-LNA for 21 cm emissions together? The answer is: a radio telescope …read more Continue reading Tracking Hydrogen in Space With a Home Radio Telescope For 21 cm Emissions
It may be blurry and blotchy, but it’s ours. The first images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy were revealed this week, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 15, 2022
Starting projects is easy. It’s the finishing part that many of us have trouble with. We can hardly imagine completing a project after more than a decade, but seeing the …read more Continue reading A Milky Way Photo Twelve Years in the Making
We as humans are limited in the ways we can look at things ourselves, and rely on on the different perspectives and insights of others to help make sense of things. All it takes is one person to look at a data set and find something completely different that changes …read more
Continue reading Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Saw Through the Stars
Decades ago, Einstein predicted the existence of something he didn’t believe in — black holes. Ever since then, people have been trying to get a glimpse of these collapsed stars that represent the limits of our understanding of physics.
For the last 25 years, Andrea Ghez has had her sights …read more
Continue reading Andrea Ghez Gazes into Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
The Hubble Space Telescope snapped detailed images of Messier 75, which is part of the ‘Gaia Sausage.’ Continue reading The Milky Way Ate This Star Cluster Billions of Years Ago
“If we can’t build something capable of delivering astronomical levels of energy, perhaps we could instead steal the energy from an astronomical object.” Continue reading The ‘Halo Drive’ Would Shoot Lasers at Black Holes to Explore the Milky Way
“This discovery dramatically changes our view on the origin of fast-moving stars.” Continue reading This Runaway ‘Hypervelocity’ Star Was Catapulted from the Milky Way’s Disk
The picture is a preview of the impending collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies in four billion years. Continue reading Hubble Captures Image of Galaxies Colliding 230 Million Light Years Away
NGC 3079 is spitting out particles that balloon across thousands of light years in space. Continue reading NASA Captures Stunning Images of ‘Nuclear Superbubbles’ in an Alien Galaxy