astronomical

Are important astronomical data hiding in plain sight?

Are important astronomical data hiding in plain sight?

Dr Vanessa Moss currently spends her days sleeping and her nights working on one of Australia’s most powerful radio telescopes – the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) in Murchison, WA. The telescope, which when opened was able to map around three million galaxies in just 300 hours. Comparable surveys of the sky have taken …

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'One of physics' greatest mysteries': We've studied distant suns in the most precise astronomical test of electromagnetism yet

‘One of physics’ greatest mysteries’: We’ve studied distant suns in the most precise astronomical test of electromagnetism yet

There is an inconvenient and annoying problem with our understanding of the laws of nature that physicists have been trying to explain for decades. It’s about electromagnetism, the law of the interaction of atoms and light, which explains everything from why you don’t fall through the ground to why the sky is blue. Our theory …

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