Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighbours
Credit: ICRAR, NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the ...
Tag: Astronomy
NASA’s Swift helps tie neutrino to star-shredding black hole
Credit: ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to ...
Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web
Credit: Francisco-Shu Kitaura (IAC). The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an ...
Sounding rocket CLASP2 elucidates solar magnetic field
Credit: NAOJ Cooperative operations between a solar observation satellite and a sounding-rocket telescope have measured the magnetic field strength in ...
The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments ...
First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought
Credit: ICRAR Cygnus X-1, a binary star system first discovered in 1964, comprises one of the closest black holes to ...
Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth’s history 42,000 years ago
Just like in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the answer was 42Credit: Nelson Parker (www.nelsonskaihukauri.co.nz) The temporary breakdown of ...
SETI Institute and NASA team up to bring NASA science into the nation’s community colleges
Innovative program to bring NASA subject matter experts, research findings, and educational resources into science classrooms of community collegesCredit: NASA, ...
Comet or asteroid: What killed the dinosaurs and where did it come from?
New theory explains possible origin of the Armageddon-causing object.Credit: Credit not required. This is a public domain image. It forever ...
The comet that killed the dinosaurs
New theory explains possible origin of the Chicxulub impactorCredit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay It was tens of miles wide and forever changed ...
NASA’s TESS discovers new worlds in a river of young stars
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Download high-resolution images from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Using observations from NASA's Transiting ...
Young planets with teenage sun give space studies a lift
New planetary system offers glimpse into how planets evolveCredit: Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center HANOVER, N.H. - February ...
Teaching an old spacecraft new tricks to continue exploring the moon
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has far exceeded its planned mission duration, revealing that the ...
Astronomers confirm solar system’s most distant known object is indeed Farfarout
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other ground-based ...
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