Double dead star news from me today 🌟🌟 A planet in a forbidden zone around a white dwarf (New Scientist) www.newscientist.com/article/2449...www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/s...
Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.
📢 🇬🇧 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology has published Government position on the next EU Research & Innovation Programme (FP10). 😊 Good to see this early engagement with the thinking on #HorizonEuropewww.gov.uk/government/p...
Only went and bloody won British Science Journalist of the Year last night at the #ABSWawards! Still absolutely thrilled. So chuffed!
A new study of 1,500 supernovas gives the most precise measure ever of cosmological time dilation--the way time seems to slow down for objects we observe in the distant universe fun fun fun 🧪🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/eins...@astrojonny.bsky.social
Analyzing 1,504 supernovae into the distant universe, astronomers have shown the clearest evidence yet for cosmological time dilation as predicted by Einstein
Which is the direct imaging program Julien?
Ha, thanks Matthew! Enjoyed your talk.
Humanity is "lacing up our shoes at the start of that race to the ultimate prize": determining for sure whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-t...@astrojonny.bsky.social
Astronomers are moving ahead in planning NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a telescope designed to answer the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe?
Beyond thrilled to share my latest feature for Scientific American, my little magnum opus on the Habitable Worlds Observatory – NASA's bold new telescope to hunt for alien life. Are we alone? The journey to find out has just begun. Enjoy! www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-t...
Astronomers are moving ahead in planning NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a telescope designed to answer the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe?
No... sorry. But the physical mag is only a few £s!
My latest feature for New Scientist is on axions – "wonder particles" that could explain dark matter, dark energy, and more. Bonus, it'll be the cover of the magazine next week, my fourth New Scientist cover of the year. So, give it a read! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Physicists are coming to realise that hypothetical particles called axions could explain not only dark matter, but dark energy too, and more besides. Now there is fresh impetus to detect them