Insight-HXMT discovers closest high-speed jet to black hole
Credit: Image by IHEP Insight-HXMT, China's first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) above 200 ...
Tag: Astronomy
Water trapped in star dust
Astrophysicists at the University of Jena (Germany) prove that dust particles in space are mixed with iceCredit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & ...
NRAO joins space mission to the far side of the moon to explore the early universe
Spacecraft DAPPER will study "dark ages" of the universe in radio wavesCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sophia Dagnello The National Radio Astronomy Observatory ...
New technology is a “science multiplier” for astronomy
Credit: NASA Federal funding of new technology is crucial for astronomy, according to results of a study released Sept. 21 ...
Cosmic X-rays reveal an indubitable signature of black holes
Credit: Srimanta Banerjee, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Marat Gilfanov An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event ...
Ryugu’s rocky past
Different kinds of rocks on Ryugu provide clues to the asteroid's turbulent historyCredit: © 2020 Tatsumi et al. The asteroid ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks out on space, politics, and science outreach
Credit: Patrick McElhenney/FOX The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In the latest ...
Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter’s storms
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team ...
How 13 billion years of cosmic evolution has ultimately led to intelligent life
New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted ...
Major NSF grant accelerates development of the Giant Magellan Telescope
One of the world's most powerful telescopes begins development of revolutionary optical technologies necessary to transform humanity's view and understanding ...
Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge
Credit: Lau et al. With almost two decades of mid-infrared (IR) imaging from the largest observatories around the world including ...
Modern theory from ancient impacts
Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar systemCredit: © Sano et al. Around 4 billion ...
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest ...
Elements of surprise: neutron stars contribute little, but something’s making gold, research finds
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, ...
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