Discovered: Remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind”
'Stellar archaeology' reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by ...
Tag: Astronomy
Astronomers pinpoint the best place on Earth for a telescope: High on a frigid Antarctic plateau
Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...
X-rays recount origin of oddball meteorites
Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to study exploring magnetization preserved for billions of years in meteorite samplesCredit: Carl Agee/Institute of Meteoritics, ...
Hubble sees summertime on Saturn
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team Saturn ...
Spectacular ultraviolet flash may finally explain how white dwarfs explode
Event also could give insight into dark energy and the creation of ironCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- For just ...
First ever image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star captured by ESO telescope
Credit: ESO/Bohn et al. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has taken the first ever image of ...
Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announce 2020 Laureates
America's largest unrestricted scientific prize goes to promising young researchersCredit: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, July 22, 2020 ...
Separating gamma-ray bursts: Students make critical breakthrough
Credit: Johann Bock Severin, Christian Kragh Jespersen and Jonas Vinther By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr ...
ESA/NASA’s solar orbiter returns first data, snaps closest pictures of the sun
Credit: Credits: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL The first images from ESA/NASA's Solar ...
How galaxies die: New insights into the quenching of star formation
A simple model explains a wide range of observations by describing the contest between galaxy halos and their central black ...
Subaru Telescope and New Horizons explore the outer solar system
Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper ...
Maunakea Observatories’ quick reflexes capture fleeting flash
The International Gemini Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory catch short gamma-ray burst within hoursCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Paterson & ...
Astrophysicists suggest carbon found in comet ATLAS help to reveal age of other comets
Credit: Martin Gembec Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia), South Korea, and the USA appear in Monthly Notices ...
Flaring, massively
KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark ...
How colliding neutron stars could shed light on universal mysteries
Credit: Courtesy of Arecibo Observatory/University of Central Florida - William Gonzalez and Andy Torres. An important breakthrough in how we ...
New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way
Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy mergerCredit: Hopkins Research Group, ...
The collective power of the solar system’s dark, icy bodies
Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies ...
FEFU astrophysicists revealed ten-microne silicate feature in large dust particles
Credit: FEFU press office Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that ...
2020 Jansky Lectureship awarded to University of Cornell professor Martha P. Haynes
Credit: College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have ...
Study reveals secret life of lithium in sun-like stars: Created not just destroyed
Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI) Lithium is becoming common in our everyday lives. It is the key ingredient ...