Published on: 2025-06-11 17:30:32
Astronomers have spotted something strange and spectacular: a mysterious object that keeps emitting pulses every 44 minutes. In a press release from Australia's Curtin University, which was part of the international team that detected the object just 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers explained that the find was all the more stunning because the signal is coming in the form of both X-rays and radio waves. The object, which was named ASKAP J1832-0911 after Australia's
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What just happened? An international team of researchers have discovered a cosmic anomaly unlike anything previously witnessed. The object in question, located roughly 15,000 light-years away in our very own Milky Way galaxy, has been observed emitting both radio waves and X-ray radiation. The celestial body, dubbed ASKAP J1832- 0911, was initially found by astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a radio telescope located in Australia. Another look using NASA
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The Radio Astronomy Software Defined Receiver (RASDR) is a system that provides a versatile Software-Defined Receiver (SDR) that is optimized for Radio Astronomy. RASDR2 is the current hardware that is in testing with a planned general release at this conference. See multiple other presentations at this conference as well as previous SARA Journals and Proceedings publications for the history of this SARA project.
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The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. It includes a corrected transcript of all recorded conversations between the lunar surface crews and Houston. The Journal also contains extensive, interwoven commentary by the Editor and by ten of the twelve moonwalking astrona
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Astrophotography without tracking is absolutely possible and can produce stunning results with the right techniques. By choosing bright and stationary targets like the Milky Way, using a sturdy tripod, and applying methods like the 500 Rule, you can capture breathtaking night sky photos without the need for expensive tracking equipment. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to master astrophotography without tracking, even as a beginner. You can do astrophotography with
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Through the looking glass: Astronomers have uncovered a planetary system that challenges long-held beliefs about where planets can exist. This discovery suggests the universe may hold far more surprising and diverse worlds than previously thought. As observational technology improves, more of these extraordinary systems could soon come to light. Astronomers have discovered a remarkable planetary system that challenges long-held assumptions about where planets can survive. Known as ν (nu) Octant
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Today, in questions you didn't know you needed the answer to: Is there such a thing as a perfect ball? And if there were, would it contain the secrets of the universe? To wit, a spherical object lurking in our galaxy is so perfectly round that astronomers can't explain how it was formed. Dubbed "Teleios" after the Greek word for "perfect," the object is what's known as a supernova remnant (SNR), a glowing cloud of hot gases and other material left behind after a massive star dies in a powerful
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In October 2022, China launched the final module of its orbiting space station. Since then, it hasn’t just been astronauts aboard Tiangong—an unusual and previously unknown microbe has also been occupying low Earth orbit. A group of scientists examined swabs collected from inside the Tiangong space station, revealing a form of bacteria not known to inhabit Earth. The discovery, published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, highlights the need to study the n
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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Okay, so in Astro you have two things: Astro Components: They have the .astro extension. They execute exclusively on the server or during the build. In other words, their code is never shipped to the client. So they can do things that client code cannot do—read from the filesystem, hit the internal services, even read from a database. But they can’t do interactive things aside from whatever exists natively in the HTML or your own <script> . Astro Components can render either other Astro Compone
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Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder. Most astronauts these days are fairly anonymous, and chances are you have never heard of Nichole Ayers. And that's OK. But sometimes it's
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For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there's an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven't been able to detect yet. It seems like we get another "Planet Nine" candidate — formerly known as Planet X, before Pluto was demoted — every few years, and none have been confirmed. But the possibility has never quite been put to bed, either. Now, an international team of researchers have made a new detection that they say could be a sign of a hidden world — by, poetically, unearthing wh
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Astronomer, the company behind the Apache Airflow-powered data orchestration platform Astro, has secured $93 million in Series D funding as enterprises increasingly seek to operationalize AI initiatives through better management of their data pipelines. The funding round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investor
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Two astronauts are gearing up for some orbital maintenance work outside the International Space Station (ISS) during a rare all-woman spacewalk. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are set to begin their spacewalk on Thursday at 8 a.m. ET, exiting the space station for a planned six hours and 35 minutes. NASA will broadcast the spacewalk live on NASA+ and the agency’s YouTube channel. You can also tune in through the live feed below. During their spacewalk, the astronauts will work
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On his 70th birthday, America's oldest full-time astronaut touched down back on Earth after spending 220 days on the International Space Station — and according to him, he didn't feel his age at all up there. As Ars Technica and other outlets report, NASA astronaut Don Pettit was jovial during his first press appearance since coming back down to Earth on April 20 — though admittedly, it'd been a few days since he'd vomited all over the Kazakh steppes where the Russian Soyuz rocket that brought
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The Perseus cluster is a vast swirl of thousands of galaxies, all bound together by gravity. Famed for its unbelievable size — containing the mass of some 600 trillion suns — it also has a reputation for being one of the few "relaxed" galaxy clusters out there: it shows no signs of having undergone a powerful but disruptive merger with another galaxy, which is how these clusters typically grow. In a word, Perseus looks settled down and pretty stable. But that may not be the case, according to a
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NASA’s upcoming missions to the Moon are set to be a lot more chilly than the Apollo program, and the agency is working to figure out how to keep its astronauts snug when visiting the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar south pole. A team of NASA engineers is preparing to test elbow joints in a large cryogenic chamber to evaluate the fabric of the next-generation spacesuits designed to be worn by astronauts on the Moon. The Cryogenic Ice Testing, Acquisition Development, and Excavation La
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We are thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head honcho of Alphabet’s X, the Moonshot Factory, will be joining us as a featured speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The whole affair promises to be fun filled and rife with intel and insights that you won’t want to miss. Astro Teller — whose official title is Captain of Moonshots — has been heading up X since 2010, where he oversees the company’s ambitious projects aimed at solving s
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NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday with a special homecoming, although his post-touchdown appearance raised concerns that the astronaut wasn’t doing so well after landing in Kazakhstan. Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, departed the ISS on Saturday at 5:57 p.m. ET on board a Soyuz spacecraft before making a parachute-as
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Unless you are an anaesthetist, you probably wouldn’t know what a carbon dioxide absorber is (red arrow below). However, for a brief period in the year 1970, carbon dioxide absorbers were what everyone was talking about. This is the story of Apollo 13 which blasted off in 1970 towards the Moon. However, things did not go according to plan and an explosion in the spacecraft left three astronauts stranded 200,000 miles from home. Suddenly this story became headline news. The whole world got to kn
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Scientists have found the most compelling evidence to date of extraterrestrial life — and apparently the discovery was a lot to process, even for the researchers behind the finding. As NPR reports, Cambridge University astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan described the human impact of finding, along with his fellow researchers, strong biosignatures — possible signs of life, basically — when pointing the James Webb Space Telescope at the exoplanet K2-18b. "This is a question humanity has been asking fo
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A pair of astrophotographers teamed up with scientists to help them solve the mystery of “sprite fireworks.” On the night of May 19, 2022, two Chinese astrophotographers, Angel An and Shuchang Dong, captured a spectacular display of over one hundred red sprites over the Himalayas. Red sprites are an elusive form of lightning that is discharged into the upper atmosphere, which scientists still don’t fully understand. The pair of astrophotographers were shooting at an observation site, located
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The 2025 BAFTA game awards took place yesterday in London and were dominated by one of our favorite games this year, Astro Bot. The PlayStation 5 platformer took home prizes in five categories including Best Game, along with Animation, Audio Achievement, Family and Game Design. That's no surprise, considering the game's critical accolades and popularity with fans. Astro Bot is the first fully-fledged and fully-priced version in the Astro universe. "With precise and responsive controls, adorable
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Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into what’s going on with Uranus. A new analysis, published in Nature Astronomy, calculates the spin of one of our solar system’s most understudied planets with unprecedented precision. A human-made object has visited the seventh planet from the Sun just once. On January 24, 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft conducted a flyby, gathering some of the most comprehensive data scienti
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A crew of four first-time astronauts are on their way home after spending nearly four days in a unique polar orbit. SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set to return to Earth on Friday, and the astronauts will make their way out of the spacecraft on their own. The Fram2 crew is scheduled for splashdown on Friday, April 4 at 12:19 p.m. ET. The astronauts will ride home aboard SpaceX’s Dragon crew vehicle, which will splashdown off the coast of California. This will be the first time a crewed Dragon splash
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As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore, had to take manual control of the vehicle. But as its thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move Starliner in the direction he wanted to go. He and his fellow astronaut, Suni Williams, knew where they wanted to go. Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor if only they could reach it. But already, the fai
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Gamers all have their opinions about what is the best game available today, but only one game can call itself the 2024 Game of the Year winner as decided at the Game Awards, and it’s Astro Bot. While action games and shooters and other high-intensity games have long been the rage, Astro Bot’s adorable big-headed robot’s adventures snuck in to win the big prize in a huge upset. Sony’s decided to strike while the iron is hot, bundling this hilarious family-friendly game with the PlayStation 5 Sli
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Four amateur astronauts are about to venture where no other crew has gone before, orbiting Earth’s polar region to better understand how humans fare in space. SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set for liftoff on Monday at 9:46 p.m. ET, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch a private crew of astronauts on board a Dragon spacecraft, where they will spend three to five days admiring our planet from a unique polar orbit. SpaceX will stream the launch live on its we
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For many years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been hellbent on sending humans to the surface of Mars. With the help of his space company's massive Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur is hoping to build an entire city on the Red Planet — a quest that feels more pertinent than ever as his key ally, president Donald Trump, signals enthusiasm for expediting the first astronauts to Mars even at the cost of NASA's scheduled missions to the Moon. But a pesky foe could derail all that. As detailed
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SpaceX is gearing up for one of its most unique missions yet, launching four private astronauts into polar orbit to observe the planet’s most remote regions from above. The Fram2 mission, named in honor of the original ship that reached both Earth’s Arctic and Antarctic regions, is set for launch no earlier than Monday, March 31 at 11:20 p.m. ET. The mission will venture out where no other human spaceflight mission has gone before, flying over the planet’s polar regions at an altitude of around
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