Scientists discover a warped disc “torn apart by stars” in a triple Tatooine-like system
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al. Pioneering new research has revealed the first direct evidence that groups of stars can ...
Tag: Astronomy
Peculiar planetary system architecture around three Orion stars explained
Understanding the origins of extremely oblique orbital angles such as these could help reveal details about the planetary formation processCredit: ...
ALMA discovers misaligned rings in planet-forming disk around triple stars
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Kraus & J. Bi; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), two teams ...
Springer Nature launches its first textbook as part of the newly established MOOC&BOOK
Textbook on Archaeoastronomy is linked to the online course The Science of Stars and Stones at Politecnico di MilanoCredit: Springer ...
ERC Starting Grant for Sara Buson
Credit: (Photo: Elisa Mortin) Cosmic rays prove it: the universe hosts astrophysically elusive "monsters" that continuously and efficiently accelerate elementary ...
NASA’s Webb ‘powerhouse’ solar array reconnects to the telescope
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn One kilowatt is about what it takes to heat up some leftovers in a microwave ...
Zooming in on dark matter
Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium Most matter in the Universe is dark and completely different in nature from the matter ...
Scientists detect first-of-its-kind ‘intermediate-mass’ black hole
A quick 'bang' signals the most massive gravitational-wave source yetCredit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for ...
UH Mānoa researchers predict location of novel candidate for mysterious dark energy
Credit: Volker Springel and the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics Astronomers have known for two decades that the expansion of the universe ...
Europe’s largest Solar Telescope GREGOR unveils magnetic details of the Sun
Credit: KIS The Sun is our star and has a profound influence on our planet, life, and civilization. By studying ...
Hindawi Limited announces open access partnership with SAGE Publishing
Three of SAGE Publishing's open access journals will publish with Hindawi under a new collaborative publishing agreementCredit: © Hindawi Limited ...
Astrophysics: A direct view of star/disk interactions
Credit: Mark A. Garlick A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for ...
Can black hole fire up cold heart of the phoenix?
Credit: Akahori et al. Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the ...
CU scientists create batteries that could make it easier to explore Mars
NASA-funded research recently reported in an American Chemical Society journalCredit: CU College or Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Electrifying research ...
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI) In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the ...
Rare encounters between cosmic heavyweights
Maunakea observatories discover three pairs of merging supermassive black holesCredit: Silverman et al. Maunakea, Hawaii - A cosmic dance between ...
Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, ...
A galaxy’s stop-and-start young radio jets
Very long baseline array reveals object's historyCredit: Lister, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF In this image, made with the National ...
NASA missions explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ active galaxy
Credit: NRAO Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has ...
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescopeCredit: Tokyo University of Science ...