Space Physics Digest

UK science budget cuts are putting the iconic Lovell Telescope and e-MERLIN array at Jodrell Bank on the chopping block after UKRI reduced the PPAN...

High-resolution VLT/SPHERE imaging has directly captured Betelgeuse's long-suspected faint companion, confirming the red supergiant's binary nature...

• An AI algorithm sifted half a million nightly flashes and flagged a tidal disruption flare from an orphan black hole 750 million light-years away.
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Astronomers have made the first detection of a supermassive black hole snacking far from its galaxy's core, identified through a tidal disruption...

• UK funding cuts will end support for the Lovell telescope after March 2028, risking its closure as a scientific facility
• Satellite...

• JWST detected the new planet through its atmospheric spectrum, revealing carbon monoxide absorption lines plus water vapor and methane, rather than...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will deliver realistic forecasts for its constraining power on fundamental cosmological parameters, with...

Jodrell Bank and the e-Merlin radio astronomy network face shutdown in March 2028 after STFC funding withdrawal.

• Wider cuts: UK involvement in...

Machine learning just doubled the number of known quasar gravitational lenses by scanning 800,000 candidates from the DESI survey and surfacing seven...

Astronomers using the VLA have detected polarized radio light from a GRB afterglow for the first time, along with the first Faraday rotation signature...

A dormant supermassive black hole was detected 30,000 light-years from its galaxy's center—the first such offset discovery—via a tidal disruption...

Starship V3 achieved its most successful test yet on July 24 with a soft upper-stage splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

• Upper stage deployed 20...

Technicians finished loading 290 gallons of hydrazine into NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on July 25, clearing a key milestone ahead of its...

The Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage site active for nearly 70 years in galaxy research and astronomer training,...

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Cosmology Findings

• 🔥 Missing Baryons Mapped: CHIME/FRB Collaboration researchers used fast radio bursts and galaxy locations to locate...

CHIME/FRB observations have located missing baryonic matter in vast intergalactic clouds, expelled from galaxies by black hole jets and supernovae far...

Carnegie Mellon University will lead three projects in the DOE’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative to build the world’s most powerful integrated...

• NTHU's Andrew Cooper co-chairs the ARRAKIHS Galaxy Science Working Group, leading theoretical models for interpreting future data
• The mission will...