January / February 2021 Mercury now available – Cotswold Astronomical Society

The latest Mercury newsletter is now available, the January / February 2021 issue can be downloaded from the Digital media | Mercury page.

In this issue:

Editors Spot
Coordinators Report
Dates for your diary
Members Photos
Solar Graphs
An Observing Challenge

Astronomy News Feeds

Astronomy
Radio Astronomy
Space
Dark Matter

U of R professors part of effort to develop tech for detecting asteroids

17 June 2021

... Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Rochester. Pipher is also the Principal Investigator of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor. [...]

Dust Cloud Caused Betelgeuse's Great Dimming Event, Astronomers Say

17 June 2021

Image credit: ESO / Montargès et al. Betelgeuse's dip in brightness led an international team of astronomers to point ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) ... [...]

The Life of Galileo

17 June 2021

Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics" and credited with many astronomical discoveries. [...]

Texas A&M astronomer weighs in on upcoming UFO report

17 June 2021

Texas A&M University astronomer Nick Suntzeff has been involved with space research for 30 years and spent 20 years in Chile, where he helped ... [...]

Learning in Retirement with Nina Scott: Sisters in science put their heads together

17 June 2021

Martha is an astronomer and planetary scientist who majored in astronomy as an undergrad at Wellesley College, earned a master of science degree ... [...]

The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments Hundreds of Millions of Light ...

17 June 2021

Now a team of astronomers in Germany and their colleagues in China and Estonia have made an intriguing discovery. These massive filaments are ... [...]

Pioneering Technology To Help NASA Land The Next Person On The Moon

18 June 2021

Dr Sascha Schediwy from the UWA node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), who has previously pioneered advanced ... [...]

UBC-built telescope detects mysterious energies within the Milky Way

17 June 2021

The CHIME radio telescope was designed and built by scientists at the University of British Columbia, McGill University and the University of Toronto. [...]

Cosmic Dark Age Decoded: NASA could put up a huge telescope on far side of the moon

17 June 2021

An illustration of what the Lunar Radio Telescope could be like. (Credits: NASA). One of the many mysteries of the universe that remain unsolved is what ... [...]

MeerKAT image reveals cosmic threads, ribbons and rings

17 June 2021

A new study using the MeerKAT radio telescope, in South Africa's Northern ... US National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Jim Condon says “only ... [...]

SA's MeerKAT radio telescope makes new discovery

17 June 2021

In a statement today, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) says at the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy IC 4296 is a rotating black ... [...]

Excerpts from the 2021 Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit – Space Sessions

17 June 2021

Enabling Global Science through Radio Astronomy. In this session, a postdoctoral fellow at Square Kilometer Array Observatory, Phillipa Hartley, ... [...]

The Best Sci-Fi Books To Read This Summer

18 June 2021

Annale Newitz, science journalist and author of Four Lost Cities, and Gretchen Treu, co-owner of A Room of One's Own Bookstore, in Madison ... [...]

Celebrate the first American woman in space by joining the National Air and Space Museum's ...

18 June 2021

Guides will be emailed to participants, allowing you and your family to join the festivities and share together a love of science and - of course - space. [...]

Former astronaut Pam Melroy confirmed as NASA deputy administrator

18 June 2021

... to lead in space and beyond — exploring the wonders of the universe, expanding the Earth science research critical to combating climate change, ... [...]

AFRL's DSX spacecraft ends orbit with a team celebration

17 June 2021

Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Demonstration and Science Experiments spacecraft senior leadership and program ... [...]

House Representatives Introduce Bill to Establish National S&T Strategy; Rep. Michael Waltz Quoted

17 June 2021

... S&T, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology said Monday. NSTC and OSTP would quadrennially assess the U.S. science and ... [...]

Hydrosat Raises $5M to Take on Climate Change from Space

17 June 2021

The company plans to launch an additional 16-satellite constellation with the capacity to scan the entire globe on a daily basis, generating science ... [...]

Publications | Experimental Astroparticle and Dark Matter

18 June 2021

Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar 8B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment. , Aprile E., Budnik R., Koltman G., Landsman H. [...]

Ask Ethan: Can Gravitational Waves Pass Through Black Holes?

18 June 2021

Gravitational waves, for example, always pass through whatever they encounter: empty space, dark matter, gas clouds, plasma, dust, planets, stars, ... [...]

The light galaxy at the heart of a dark dispute

18 June 2021

Dark matter is considered the glue that holds galaxies together – but a few years ago, a team of astronomers claimed to have found a galaxy that didn't ... [...]

What did we do before gravity?

18 June 2021

Most scientists today support a theory that involves Dark Matter, matter they assume is there, they just can't see it. The presence of this matter would ... [...]

The Fault in our Star (Populations): Solving the Multiple Stellar Populations Problem with Dark Matter

17 June 2021

Title: Dark Matter as a Possible Solution to the Multiple Stellar Populations Problem in Globular Clusters. Authors: Ebrahim Hassani, Seyyed Milad ... [...]

Texas A&M astronomer weighs in on upcoming UFO report

17 June 2021

... astronomer Nick Suntzeff has been involved with space research for 30 years and spent 20 years in Chile, where he helped co-discover dark matter. [...]