Measurements of pulsar acceleration reveal Milky Way’s dark side
Credit: IAS; Dana Berry It is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious ...
Tag: Astronomy
Researchers use LRZ HPC resources to perform largest-ever supersonic turbulence simulation
A multi-institution team from Australia and Germany simulates turbulence happening on both sides of the so-called "sonic scale," opening the ...
ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Galaxies begin to "die" when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed ...
Chandra studies extraordinary magnetar
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of West Virginia/H. Blumer; Infrared (Spitzer and Wise): NASA/JPLCalTech/Spitzer In 2020, astronomers added a new member to ...
When galaxies collide: Hubble showcases six beautiful galaxy mergers
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), A. Adamo ...
NASA’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument
Credit: NASA/ASU NASA's Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L'TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been ...
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse
Credit: Kavli IPMU The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many ...
A blazar in the early universe
Details revealed in galaxy's jet 12.8 billion light-years from EarthCredit: Spingola et al.; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF. The supersharp radio "vision" ...
Recently discovered comet seen during 2020 total solar eclipse
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Andreas Möller (Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V.)/processed by Jay Pasachoff and Roman Vanur/Joy Ng. Eclipse image used with permission. As Chile ...
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA's fully assembled James ...
The Subaru Telescope photographs the next target asteroid for Hayabusa2
Credit: NAOJ On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target ...
Compressive fluctuations heat ions in space plasma
Credit: Yohei Kawazura New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer in Japan have found that the ...
Artificial intelligence classifies supernova explosions with unprecedented accuracy
A new machine learning algorithm trained only with real data has classified over 2,300 supernovae with over 80% accuracyCredit: Credit: ...
Catherine Cesarsky wins 2020 Tate Award for International Leadership in Physics
Credit: Cesarsky WASHINGTON, December 17, 2020 -- The American Institute of Physics announced the winner of the 2020 John Torrence ...
Kavli foundation strengthens IAU public engagement programs and scientific meeting
The International Astronomical Union is awarded $240 000 towards public engagement programs and scientific meetings in 2021-2024Credit: IAU OAO/NAOJ The ...
Longest intergalactic gas filament discovered
Study confirms models on the evolution of our universeCredit: Reiprich et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics More than half of the ...
Scientists use NASA data to predict appearance of December 14, 2020 eclipse
Credit: Left image: Predictive Science Inc.; © 2020. All rights reserved. On Dec. 14, 2020, the Moon's shadow raced across ...
Dark storm on Neptune reverses direction, possibly shedding a fragment
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and L.A. Sromovsky and P.M. Fry (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Astronomers ...
Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter
Team of international collaborators detect 'external field effect,' a prediction unique to MOND, rival dark matter hypothesisCredit: Creative Commons An ...
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
Credit: © University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are ...
