The First Pulsar
The first detection of a pulsar and the first Nobel Prize in Physics for an astronomical detection.
The Measure of Things
200 years ago, Joseph Fourier had an idea that added a whole new dimension to physics.
What’s your Cosmology? Ask CMB Maps.
Today’s paper takes you back to the time when anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background first shaped Observational Cosmology into the field it is today.
Astrophysical Classics: Joy in One Hundred and Twenty Particles
In 1972 astronomers witnessed the first full galaxy collision, not by looking up at the sky but by peering at a small screen in a very large box. The methods and implications are enshrined in modern astrophysics, but it is the results themselves that still truly amaze, stunning simple images of galaxies, playfully strewn and joyfully picked apart. A full exploration of a galaxy of a scale not matched before or since.
The birth of a new field
Today we’re talking about the history of gamma-ray astrophysics, starting with a very important observation from the late 1980s
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: A Legacy
Today’s ‘beyond’ bite takes you back to 2000, when a new telescope meant to survey the night sky takes the astrophysics community by storm.