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Astronomers find the first example of an intact planet orbiting a white dwarf

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, has found the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a...

Planck-HFI – a window onto the history of the Universe

Dr François Bouchet, Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), was one of the pioneers of the European Space Agency’s...

NSF awards $17.5m in funding for the Giant Magellan Telescope

National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the GMTO Corporation $17.5m to accelerate the prototyping and testing of powerful optical and infrared technologies for the...

CTAO and the high energy Universe

CTAO Project Scientist, Dr Roberta Zanin, spoke to The Innovation Platform about the Cherenkov Telescope Array’s role in areas such as dark matter detection,...

First evidence that stars can tear apart their planet-forming discs

New research has revealed the first evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming discs, leaving it warped and with tilted rings. An...

High-precision astrophysics and multi-messenger studies

Professor Kinwah Wu from University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory discusses high-precision astrophysics in the context of multi-messenger studies of gravitational radiation sources...

Connecting neutron star diversity to that of supernovae explosions

Professor Samar Safi-Harb’s research addresses the physics of such objects as supernovae and neutron stars, and answers questions around their diversity, formation, and evolution,...

Water in space and the formation of new planets

Professor Edwin Bergin from the University of Michigan’s Department of Astronomy explains why a better understanding of water in space is crucial in understanding...

Gravitational wave observatories and multi-messenger astronomy

Joey Shapiro Key, an Assistant Professor at University of Washington Bothell, looks at the advent of multi-messenger astronomy and the role that gravitational wave...

EDRS – the ‘SpaceDataHighway’ for Earth Observation data

EDRS Project Manager, Michael Witting, speaks to The Innovation Platform about how the SpaceDataHighway has evolved and what the future might hold. Dubbed the ‘SpaceDataHighway’,...

Astrophotonics at innoFSPEC AIP Potsdam

Professor Martin M Roth and Dr Kalaga Madhav from innoFSPEC Potsdam explain how astrophotonics is crucial to the new and next generation of astronomy...

Centaurus A and the detection of VHE gamma-ray emissions

Mathieu de Naurois, H.E.S.S. Deputy Director at CNRS, outlines the use of the H.E.S.S. telescopes in detecting the kiloparsec-sized VHE gamma-ray emission of Centaurus...

Astrophysicists have created the largest 3D map of the Universe

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has published a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe, revealing that six billion years...

The SKA – building the world’s largest radio telescope

The Innovation Platform spoke with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation’s Director General, Philip Diamond, about building the world's largest radio telescope. The Square Kilometre...

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