Active asteroid unveils fireball identity
Credit: NAOJ/Kasuga et al. At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, ...
Tag: Astronomy
Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life’s building blocks
ALMA and Rosetta map the journey of phosphorusCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rivilla et al.; ESO/L. Calçada; ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM; Mario Weigand, www.SkyTrip.de Phosphorus, ...
Final images from Cassini spacecraft
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/A. Bader (Lancaster University). Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the ...
Stars need a partner to spin Universe’s brightest explosions
When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, University of Warwick astronomers have found that ...
Leading astronomers and geophysicists honored in RAS bicentenary
Credit: Steve Kurtz / UC Santa Cruz The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its medals ...
Christopher Kochanek awarded 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Contributions
Professor of astronomy honored for research into black hole formation, building worldwide network of telescopesCredit: Kevin Grady (Radcliffe Institute) WASHINGTON, ...
Stellar heavy metals can trace history of galaxies
Credit: University of Tokyo, NAOJ Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and ...
NEID exoplanet instrument sees first light
New extreme-precision instrument on track to find and 'weigh' exoplanetsCredit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/NSF/AURA The new NEID instrument, ...
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say Princeton scientists
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain ...
Cosmic bubbles reveal the first stars
Astronomers detect first stars 'bubbling out' from the cosmic dark agesCredit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA ...
The Milky Way’s impending galactic collision is already birthing new stars
Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic CloudsCredit: ...
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxyCredit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University ...
Fast radio burst observations deepen astronomical mystery
Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of a repeating Fast Radio Burst to a nearby spiral galaxy, challenging theories on the ...
Surprise! TESS shows ancient north star undergoes eclipses
Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS Astronomers using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have shown that Alpha Draconis, a well-studied star ...