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

Orbital Oddities in Newchurch - Isle of Wight Observer News

27 May 2022

James Fradgley, chairman of the Southern Area Group of Astronomical Societies (SAGAS), ... James has a background in physics and astronomy. [...]

Astronomers will train James Webb Telescope's high-precision spectrographs on two ... - Phys.org

27 May 2022

Illustration of exoplanet 55 Cancri e, a rocky planet with a diameter almost twice that of Earth orbiting just 0.015 astronomical units from its ... [...]

Rare meteor storm possible over Memorial Day weekend - UPI.com

27 May 2022

Meteor showers are among the most enjoyable astronomy events, with shooting stars streaking through the sky as Earth plows through a field of ... [...]

New 'Super-Earth' discovered by Japanese astronomers - Indy100

27 May 2022

It was discovered by the Subaru telescope at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Hawaii, and can't be seen with the naked eye. It can be ... [...]

3 cryptos that could provide astronomical gains: Apecoin (APE), Mehracki (MKI), and VeChain (VET)

27 May 2022

These three cryptocurrencies have the potential to moon in the future and could provide astronomical gains for your portfolio. [...]

How Jesuit spirituality gives rise to great scientists | America Magazine

27 May 2022

Gabriele Gionti, S.J., an astronomer, points to a 1935 Zeiss telescope during a tour for media representatives of the Vatican Observatory at the papal ... [...]

A new Quantum Technique Could Enable Telescopes the Size of Planet Earth - Universe Today

27 May 2022

There's a revolution underway in astronomy. ... in radio astronomy where signals from an astronomical radio source (black holes, quasars, pulsars, ... [...]

Radio Telescope Market Report SWOT Analysis by 2030 | Celestron, Sky Watcher, Meade ...

27 May 2022

USA, New Jersey– The Global Radio Telescope Market Research Report 2022-2029 is a valuable source of insightful data for business strategists. [...]

Watch asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) sweep past today and tomorrow - EarthSky

27 May 2022

Between May 16 and 26, 2022, professional astronomers have been studying ... Previous observations from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico ... [...]

Mega science SKA project reaches 10-year mark | ITWeb

27 May 2022

The giant radio telescope is expected to be completed in 2028. This week marks the 10-year anniversary since SA was announced as one of the hosts of ... [...]

The world's most remote oceans are polluted with microplastics: study | News

27 May 2022

From WA to the Moon; Curtin's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence going where no radio astronomy has gone before ... [...]

Cosmic lighthouses make space navigation easier | Life | pentictonherald.ca

26 May 2022

Her project was to use a custom-made radio telescope to study how distant ... Radio astronomy from the Earth's surface is always hit by the same ... [...]

Mile-wide asteroid, the largest yet of 2022, flies safely by Earth | Live Science

27 May 2022

A mile-wide asteroid passed by Earth on Friday (May 27) at a distance about 10 times that of the space between the Earth and moon. [...]

Europe's Space Agency Invests in Orbital Trash Removal Service - Gizmodo

27 May 2022

The European Space Agency is teaming up with Astroscale to remove dead satellites from orbit. [...]

Starliner Completes Successful Mission; Looking Forward to Next - Huntsville Business Journal

27 May 2022

May 27, 2022 /in Aerospace, Featured, Lead, News, Science, Space, ... which carried the CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station, ... [...]

NASA's CAPSTONE mission will send a CubeSat on a gnarly orbit around the Moon - Inverse

27 May 2022

On Wednesday, the space agency and its commercial space partners announced that the 55-lb CAPSTONE spacecraft, designed to study this peculiar ... [...]

Exosonic Teams With EpiSys Science For Drone Autonomy Suite | Aviation Week Network

27 May 2022

Los Angeles-based startup Exosonic will use the Tactical AI suite from Poway, California-based EpiSys Science in a supersonic drone demonstrator ... [...]

Imagining early Earth as an exoplanet can help us search for alien life, scientists say | Space

27 May 2022

Click here for more Space.com videos. ... evolved elsewhere in ways similar to on Earth is only one way scientists approach astrobiology, however. [...]

Which subscription boxes you shouldn't was money on and which are worth it | Lifestyles

27 May 2022

New study brings dark matter into question, provides support for alternative gravity theory. There are tons of subscription boxes out there, ... [...]

Mark Ravenhill In New Role At GLP | Live Design Online

27 May 2022

Lighting Dark Matter's architecture was an important final touch for the experience. “A lighting exhibition itself needs to be lit,” commented ... [...]

Artificial intelligence helps in the identification of astronomical objects - Phys.org

27 May 2022

Euclid will provide a detailed cartography of the universe and shed light into the nature of the enigmatic dark matter and dark energy. [...]

The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker - The New York Times

27 May 2022

The curator Jonathan Watkins, who commissioned “Cold Dark Matter” when he was the director of the Chisenhale Gallery in London, said Parker's work was ... [...]

Watch Now: What will COVID look like this summer? | Latest Headlines | oanow.com

27 May 2022

New study brings dark matter into question, provides support for alternative gravity theory. This summer should look a lot different than the past ... [...]

Uncertainties in measuring the dark matter signal from Milky Way satellites using Cherenkov ... - arXiv

27 May 2022

They should also contribute to the total dark matter signal to be mea- sured by CTA. Strategies for detecting dark subhalos with CTA were studied ... [...]