Tag: Astronomy
Alcyonea, the largest radio galaxy ever observed
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Radio astronomy catches distant galaxies giving birth to stars Thanks to the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a large network of 70,000 radio…
Pictures | The most beautiful astrophotographs
It has almost become a tradition in the United Kingdom: every year, since 2009, a jury meets at theGreenwich Royal Observatory to reward the most beautiful photographs of the sky…
Elektra, the first quadruple asteroid ever discovered
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] 2028, an asteroid threatens the Earth Among the roles of the European Space Agency (ESA): to protect us from threats from space. Debris…
Discovery of the largest galaxy ever observed
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Radio astronomy catches distant galaxies giving birth to stars Thanks to the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a large network of 70,000 radio…
The Exploratorium: the first maps of the Moon
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] The Moon as you’ve never seen it before! See the Moon in 4K through the eyes of the LRO probe. The latter, which…
Calendars in ancient civilizations
After a short stopover on the calculation processes of the different calendars, present in the first part of this file (see bottom of page), we leave here on the traces…
Unistellar citizen astronomers observed hundreds of exoplanets and asteroids in 2021
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Test of the Unistellar eVscope, a telescope like no other We tested the eVscope from the French startup Unistellar. EV for “enhanced vision”,…
The future Sun’s Wrath monitoring satellite has a name!
At the end of a competition which took place from May to September 2021, the European Space Agency received 5,422 proposals to name its satellite dedicated to monitoring the Sun.…
Discovery of a drifting black hole in the Milky Way
For the first time, an isolated stellar black hole — that is, without a companion — has been detected. This invisible object revealed itself by producing a gravitational microlens. You…
First unambiguous detection of a wandering stellar black hole
For the first time, an isolated stellar black hole — that is, without a companion — has been detected. This invisible object revealed itself by producing a gravitational microlens. You…