Unravelling the knotty problem of the Sun’s activity
Credit: MacTaggart et al. A new approach to analysing the development of magnetic tangles on the Sun has led to ...
Tag: Astronomy
Spotted: An exoplanet with the potential to form moons
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al. Cambridge, MA ¬- Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have helped ...
The weather forecast for Venus
Space-based infrared imaging reveals the nighttime weather on VenusCredit: © 2021 JAXA/Imamura et al. Little is known about the weather ...
From the Sun to the stars
A journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State's NEID spectrometer starts its scientific missionCredit: Dani Zemba, Guðmundur Stefánsson, and ...
New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth
For the first time, stealth coronal mass ejections can be detected before they wreak havoc on Earth without the need ...
The origin of bifurcated current sheets explained
Credit: POSTECH A Korean research team has identified the origin of bifurcated current sheets, considered one of the most unsolved ...
Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births
Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. ...
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in ...
Tail without a comet: the dusty remains of Comet ATLAS
Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / D. Jewitt (UCLA) A serendipitous flythrough of the tail of a disintegrated comet ...
EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
Credit: Radboud University; CSIRO/ATNF/I.Feain et al., R.Morganti et al., N.Junkes et al.; ESO/WFI; MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al.; NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et ...
Cosmic rays help supernovae explosions pack a bigger punch
Credit: Credit: F. Rodríguez Montero. The final stage of cataclysmic explosions of dying massive stars, called supernovae, could pack an ...
A bug’s life: Millimeter-tall mountains on neutron stars
Credit: ESO / L. Calçada New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of ...
Researchers reveal cause of Jupiter’s x-ray aurorae
Credit: YAO Zhonghua's group An international research team led by YAO Zhonghua from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of ...
A star in a distant galaxy blew up in a powerful explosion, solving an astronomical mystery
Giant explosion in space illuminates thousand-year mysteryCredit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory Dr. Iair Arcavi, a Tel Aviv University researcher ...