ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organisations around the world, astronomers have spotted ...
Tag: Astronomy
UMD astronomers find x-rays lingering years after landmark neutron star collision
New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these eventsCredit: Image credit: E. Troja ...
In the eye of a stellar cyclone
Sydney undergraduate unlocks bizarre secrets of a ticking time-bomb starCredit: European Southern Observatory While on COVID lockdown, a University of ...
A new look at sunspots
Helping NASA scientists understand major flares and life around other starsCredit: NASA/SDO NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to ...
Hubble sees swirls of forming stars
Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured ...
Spitzer space telescope legacy chronicled in Nature Astronomy
Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar ...
Signals from distant stars connect optical atomic clocks across Earth for the first time
Transportable radio telescopes could provide global high-precision comparisons of the best atomic clocks.Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ...
New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to ...
The black hole always chirps twice: New clues deciphering the shape of black holes
Credit: C. Evans; J.C. Bustillo. Black holes are one the most fascinating objects in the Universe. At their surface, known ...
New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability
UNC-Chapel Hill and NASA measure temperature for the largest ever sample of super flaresCredit: UNC-Chapel Hill Ultraviolet light from giant ...
Nobel Prize awarded for research with ESO telescopes on Milky Way’s central black hole
Credit: ESO/S. Gillessen et al. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have jointly been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics ...
NASA’s TESS creates a cosmic vista of the northern sky
Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of ...
Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
Credit: Credit: GAMA Survey Team, ICRAR/UWA. Astronomers from The University of Western Australia's node of the International Centre for Radio ...
Arrokoth: Flattening of a snowman
Only in the course of several million years did Arrokoth, also known by its nickname Ultima Thule, acquire its bizarre, ...
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