Govert Schilling

Recent articles by Govert Schilling

Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / iStock / Getty Images / Bettmann Allegheny Observatory Records, University of Pittsburgh

Astronomy History The Great Debate

What makes a planet habitable? Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser

What makes a planet habitable?

An artist's impression of the Perseverance Rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mars 2020 The new missions heading for the Red Planet

The Milky Way arches over Llyn y Dywarchen lake, Snowdonia National Park. Credit: Matt Gibson / Getty Images

How the Milky Way got its name: a guide to astronomical misnomers

Artist's impression of a pulsar. Credit: NASA

What is a pulsar? A complete guide to spinning neutron stars

Galaxy clusters are ideal objects to study in the search for dark energy. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS

What is dark energy, and how are astronomers trying to find it?

The CHIME telescope under a full Moon. Credit: CHIME Collaboration

CHIME telescope and the hunt for fast radio bursts

A photo of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope at sunset, taken from behind the nearby Gemini telescope. Credit: LSST Project/NSF/AURA

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: astronomy’s next revolution

An artist’s impression of BepiColombo approaching Mercury. Image Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA/JPL

Bepi Colombo: Mission to Mercury

An illustration of the TESS spacecraft observing an M dwarf star with orbiting planets. TESS is expected to move the hunt for exoplanets into the next era. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: the mission to find new worlds

High definition galaxy background, stars and bright light shining in a milky way

The mystery of Fast Radio Bursts