Tag: Astronomy

A direct, observation-based test of one of the pillars of cosmologyCredit: Photograph by Yuri Beletsky, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. ...

Modelling shows big galaxies get bigger by merging with smaller onesCredit: Gupta et al/ASTRO 3D/ IllustrisTNG collaboration. Galaxies grow large ...

Findings may change fundamental thinking about star system formation, dynamicsCredit: Courtesy of Sijie Yu / UCI Irvine, Calif., April 20, ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star ...

Credit: Courtesy of Cary Forest / UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide ...

The recordings of a complete nova eruption are unique worldwideCredit: © Nova_by K. Ulaczyk, Warschau Universität Observatorium Since the beginning ...

Credit: Aaron Geller (Northwestern University) A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than ...

A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object ...

Credit: Vilppu Piirola An international research team led by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Turku, ...

Credit: School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University American Astronomical Society (AAS) Solar Physics Division (SPD) recently announced the ...

Credit: Courtesy Vaidehi Paliya CLEMSON, South Carolina -- A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with ...

The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.Credit: ...

Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the ...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), K. T. Inoue et al. Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a ...

Study knocks down some theories for the origin of a mysterious light signature that has puzzled physicists for yearsCredit: Zosia ...

A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University ...

Northern Arizona University planetary scientist prepares for launch of James Webb Space TelescopeCredit: Photo courtesy of Northern Arizona University Icy ...

These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were ...

Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star ...