3+ hour, 8+ min ago  (752+ words) Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small companion galaxies, slowly building up the bright central region and sweeping spiral arms we see today....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (654+ words) Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) No. 62 Squadron personnel have been tracking the historic Artemis II flight as it passes over New Zealand skies, sending four NASA astronauts further into space than any human has ever been. The Orion spacecraft…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (551+ words) A modest-looking telescope crafted from a drainpipe will take centre stage this month at Whanganui Regional Museum " revealing the remarkable ingenuity of one of Whanganui's most significant amateur astronomers of his time. The featured taonga in the Museum's Taonga o…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (361+ words) A University of Canterbury maths professor has become the first person from outside the United Kingdom to receive a prestigious astronomy medal." The Agnes Mary Clerke Medal for Historical Research in Astronomy or Geophysics, presented by the UK's Royal Astronomical…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (399+ words) Revealing the science that propelled Nelson's greatest son to a Nobel Prize, Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics traces key concepts in modern science from their origins in the work of the man Einstein labelled "a second Newton…...