Read article: Flash Physics: Giant glowing ‘space blobs’, SCOAP3 extended for three years, European Spallation Source gains momentum
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: Adventures in search of auroras
This fascinating account of the Northern Lights taught reviewer (and space plasma physicist) Colin Forsyth a thing or two about aurora science
Read article: Flash Physics: Levenson new deputy head of US telescope body, πΚ atoms at CERN, simulating ‘monster pulsars’
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
Read article: A billion pixels, a billion stars
Gerry Gilmore and Floor van Leeuwen explain how the precise data from the Gaia mission will revolutionize our view of the galaxy
Read article: Web life: Universe Awareness
The Universe Awareness project aims to bring the beauty and grandeur of the cosmos into the classroom for children aged four to 10
Read article: Blue is the colour of the universe’s first supernovae
Research could help detect most distant and oldest supernovae in the universe
Read article: How LIGO’s merging black holes formed from two massive stars
Simulations give a backstory to the first ever detection of a gravitational wave
Read article: Did solar superflares spark life on Earth?
Huge storms on the Sun could have disrupted our planet's magnetic shield
Read article: Supernova sediments still rain down on Earth and the Moon
New evidence confirms multiple supernova explosions took place in the solar system's neighbourhood relatively recently
Read article: Finding the Earth-bound evidence for supernovae in the galactic neighbourhood
Iron-60 deposits in the Earth's crust reveal that supernovae in the relatively recent past may have affected our planet
