Astronomy China is on Mars (Astronomy) 15 May 202115 May 2021 The Tianwen-1 mission lander touched the Red Planet's surface at 01:18 a.m. this night. A result that makes China the second country in history, after the United States, to have successfully…
Astronomy Introducing Weizmann Fast Astronomical Survey Telescope (W-FAST) (Astronomy) 14 May 2021 Eran Ofek and colleagues in their recent paper presented an overview, performance metrics, science objectives, and some first results of the Weizmann Fast Astronomical Survey Telescope (W-FAST). Their study recently…
Astronomy Charting the Expansion History of the Universe with Supernovae (Astronomy) 14 May 2021 An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for the expansion of the Universe best match the data when a new…
Astronomy Furthering the Exploration of Space (Astronomy) 14 May 2021 Durham’s researchers are helping to build some of the world’s most powerful new telescopes to further our exploration of space. Our astronomers and cosmologists are also involved major international projects…
Astronomy James Webb Spreads His Wings One Last Time on Earth (Astronomy) 14 May 2021 After the green light of the last tests last February, the largest space telescope in the world has also successfully passed the functional tests of the primary mirror deployment, opening…
Astronomy LAMOST Helps Gaia Achieve Millimagnitude Photometry Precision (Astronomy) 13 May 2021 The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has helped Gaia achieve millimagnitude (mmag) precision in photometry, according to a study led by researchers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese…
Astronomy One Hundred And Eighteen Small Universes For Chex-Mate (Astronomy) 13 May 2021 They had the European Xmm-Newton space telescope at their disposal for three million seconds. Objective: to observe and study an ultra-selected sample of 118 galaxy clusters. They are the astronomers of the…
