A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser. The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought ...
Tag: Astronomy
Hubble pinpoints supernova blast
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed the supernova ...
Study: X-Rays surrounding ‘Magnificent 7’ may be traces of sought-after particle
Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around group of neutron starsCredit: D. ...
Astronomers document the rise and fall of a rarely observed stellar dance
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of ...
Researchers rewind the clock to calculate age and site of supernova blast
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) Astronomers are winding back the clock on the ...
Giant 2D atlas of the universe helps dark energy spectroscopic survey
Credit: DESI website The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and ...
Building a giant 2D map of the universe to prepare for the largest 3D map
Nearly 200 researchers pitched in to gather, process, and stitch together images for half of the sky to prepare for ...
Shining a new light on dark energy
Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of 700 million objectsElliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared ...
NASA missions unmask magnetar eruptions in nearby galaxies
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona On April 15, 2020, a brief burst ...
Astronomers find signature of magnetar outbursts in nearby galaxies
Spacecraft detect giant flare in nearby galaxy, allowing localization in star forming regionCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam ...
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 ...
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 ...
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