January / February 2022 Mercury Available for Download

The latest issue of the society magazine Mercury is now available to download from the Downloads area.

Contents include

Editors Spot
Coordinators Report
Dates For Your Diary
Members Photos

Astronomy News Feeds

Astronomy
Radio Astronomy
Space
Dark Matter

Caught in a Solar Storm on the Way to Mars - Sky & Telescope

10 August 2022

The essential guide to astronomy. ... which features research highlights from the journals of the American Astronomical Society. Advertisement ... [...]

Stars determine their own masses - EurekAlert!

10 August 2022

Every subfield in astronomy depends on the mass distribution of stars — or initial mass function (IMF) — which has proved challenging for scientists ... [...]

ALMA makes first-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk - EurekAlert!

10 August 2022

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated ... [...]

Senator who helped save Hubble donates space telescope collection

10 August 2022

Called the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, or MAST, the database contains astronomical observations from several NASA astronomy ... [...]

Astronomers plan to fish an interstellar meteorite out of the ocean using a massive magnet

10 August 2022

Astronomers are planning a fishing trip to land an extraterrestrial interloper on Earth: A small meteorite from another star system that crashed ... [...]

Amateur astronomer captures incredible video of Jupiter from his backyard - TheTandD.com

10 August 2022

An amateur astronomer shows what you can do with store-bought equipment, take a tour of the … Latest video ... [...]

First-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk - Phys.org

10 August 2022

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and partners at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made ... [...]

Planet formation: ALMA detects gas in a circumplanetary disk - ScienceDaily

10 August 2022

Date: August 9, 2022; Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Summary: Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ... [...]

First of NASA's SunRISE SmallSats Rolls Off Production Line - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

10 August 2022

Six of these small satellites will work together, creating the largest radio telescope ever launched to detect and track hazardous explosive space ... [...]

Perth supercomputer images aftermath of star's violent death in first big test

10 August 2022

Radio astronomy is going to be one of the big benefactors of the Pawsey centre upgrade – by its very nature it takes a huge amount of computing and ... [...]

Explosive neutron star merger captured for the first time - Tech Explorist

10 August 2022

In a first for radio astronomy, scientists have detected millimeter-wavelength light from a short-duration gamma-ray burst. [...]

A new Australian supercomputer has already delivered a stunning supernova ... - The Conversation

10 August 2022

Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australia's newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope ... [...]

Planet formation: ALMA detects gas in a circumplanetary disk - ScienceDaily

10 August 2022

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ... and scientists hope that upcoming observations with the James Webb Space ... [...]

Scientists Are Investigating Gigantic Energy 'Jets' That Shoot Up to Space - VICE

10 August 2022

A recent "gigantic jet" of lighting shot up 50 miles into space, a phenomenon that scientists are just beginning to understand. [...]

Astronomers plan to fish an interstellar meteorite out of the ocean using a massive magnet

10 August 2022

Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others. [...]

First of NASA's SunRISE SmallSats Rolls Off Production Line - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

10 August 2022

Building a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) telescope in space may sound like science fiction. But through the combined power of six toaster-size ... [...]

University of Arizona graduate tracks satellite constellations for beleagured astronomers

10 August 2022

Her study comes as Space X prepares to launch more sky-cluttering Starlink spacecraft. [...]

Critical Research Under Way on Space Station Benefiting Humans on and off Earth

10 August 2022

NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren opened up the Kibo laboratory module's airlock and retrieved an external science platform. He also installed a ... [...]

JWST's “Shrodinger's Galaxy Candidate” Has Astronomers Very Puzzled | IFLScience

10 August 2022

Dwarf Galaxies' Lack Of Dark Matter Halos Challenges Current Model Of Universe. Aug 8 2022. 160. Advertisement. Trending; Most Read. [...]

Webb telescope reveals unpredicted bounty of bright galaxies in early universe - Science

10 August 2022

The prevailing theory of cosmology, known as lambda-CDM (referring to cold dark matter), describes how, soon after the big bang, the unseen dark ... [...]

Crazy Swedes add Pink Floyd and Billy Cobham covers to debut album reissue - Louder

10 August 2022

You can listen to the track Dark Matter below. Pre-orders for the Deluxe Edition will open shortly. RECOMMENDED VIDEOS FOR YOU. [...]

Four (more) things you might not know about antimatter - Symmetry Magazine

9 August 2022

Scientists are currently searching for other particles, including axions, supersymmetric particles and dark matter particles, that could explain ... [...]

What the James Webb Space Telescope Has Revealed About Distant Galaxies So Far

9 August 2022

Dark matter is now thought to have played a major role in galaxy formation. The JWST ought to have the capability of imaging the most distant ... [...]

Physicist Suzie Sheehy lists the experiments that changed the world

9 August 2022

... even more astonishing things – the discovery of neutrinos, quarks, the Higgs boson and the evidence for dark matter and dark energy. [...]