South Africa in the news: Australian researchers capture strange radio waves from direction of galactic centre: Astronomers from Australia’s University of Sydney discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the Milky Way’s centre. The discovery, published on Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, …: “South Africa” – BingNews Cricket Australia in flux as chair Earl …
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin: can they be more than ‘space’ joyrides for millionaires?: Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on 12 July. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned …
Virgin Galactic: space tourism takes off with Branson’s inaugural flight: Virgin Galactic takes off. Virgin Galactic With British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s successful flight to the edge of space, he and his company Virgin Galactic have firmly established themselves in the history books as space tourism pioneers. While not the first tourist to enter space, …
How we discovered a glowing galactic ghoul: Makani Jim Geach, David Tree, Peter Richardson, Games and Visual Effects Research Lab, University of Hertfordshire It’s a classic Halloween tale. A group of ghost hunters visit a grand old house that is rumoured to be haunted. But after thoroughly exploring, they leave disappointed: there are no ghosts …
How we proved Einstein right on galactic scales – and what it means for dark energy and dark matter: When galaxies align. NASA Gravity may be the weakest of the fundamental forces in nature, but it is ultimately what enabled life on Earth to evolve. Thanks to its weak attractiveness over long distances, mass in …