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...astronomy wing of the award-winning OpenSTEM Labs initiative, boasts two autonomous robotic telescopes located at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife. The first telescope is the PIRATE (Physics Innovations Robotic Astronomical Telescope Explorer), consisting of a 17-inch PlaneWave CDK telescope in a 4.5 m Baader Planetarium All-Sky dome. The second is the COAST...

...astronomy, and science. How we made the discovery The discovery dates back to last September, when two giant measuring devices in different parts of the US called LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) caught a passing gravitational wave from the collision of two massive black holes in a faraway galaxy. LIGO is what we call an interferometer,...

...astronomy through international cooperation. Although the boundaries of the 88 constellations used today were formally defined in the 1920s, it was only in 2016 that the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) was established to collate historical records and maintain the official catalogue of proper names for stars of scientific and historical value. A casual internet search...

...astronomy and as one of the greatest of the pre-telescopic observers. Tycho’s detailed observations of the position of Mars, meticulously recorded over many years in the latter part of the 16th century, were used by Kepler in developing his laws of planetary motion. It is completely appropriate that Tycho be honoured with one of the most prominent craters on the Moon....

...astronomy PhD student at The Open University, explains how you can become a citizen scientist and start your search...Somewhere in space a black hole silently orbits a star. The star is bright enough that telescopes on Earth can view it easily, yet the black hole is invisible. Unlike many other black holes this one isn’t drawing in matter from its companion star; it’s...