The first picture of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy shows how we have, in a sense, observed the invisible.
Astronomy
Apr 11, 2019
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A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth's Sun.
Astronomy
May 16, 2018
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Astronomers have conducted a large-scale survey of the invisible Milky Way using the Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope.
Astronomy
Jan 26, 2018
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How do people orient themselves when they are in a new area? How do we use street signs or houses, for instance, to estimate the distance we have traveled? Put simply: how do we update our mental map? Neuroscientists have ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2017
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This colourful, seemingly abstract artwork is actually a map of our Galaxy, depicting all the celestial objects that were detected in the XMM-Newton slew survey between August 2001 and December 2014.
Astronomy
May 15, 2017
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ESA's Gaia is surveying stars in our Galaxy and local galactic neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about its structure, origin and evolution.
Astronomy
Nov 10, 2016
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Ancient Celtic bards were famous for the sheer quantity of information they could memorise. This included thousands of songs, stories, chants and poems that could take hours to recite in full.
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2016
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ESA's Herschel mission releases today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. This is accompanied by a set of catalogues of hundreds of thousands of compact sources that span ...
Astronomy
Apr 22, 2016
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The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia.
Space Exploration
Apr 7, 2016
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An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer to cracking ...
Astronomy
Aug 14, 2014
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