Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electronsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 2, ...
Tag: Astronomy
What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have ringsCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel ...
Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve
At only 1% the age of the sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally ...
The flagship of the International Winter School 2020 is the ‘Two Capitals’ joint course
The 'Two Capitals' joint course of SPbPU and RUDNCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic ...
Two stars merged to form massive white dwarf
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs ...
Life on Titan cannot rely on cell membranes, according to computational simulations
Credit: Johan Bodell7Chalmers Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have made a new contribution to the ongoing search into ...
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
Credit: Michelle Kunimoto University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, ...
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Naval Research Lab/Giacintucci, S.; XMM:ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRTN; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the ...
Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy’s halo suggests turbulent past
Credit: NASA/Digitized Sky Survey/P. Goudfrooij (STScI)/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the ...
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
Credit: Gudmundur Stefansson (left) and Ethan Tweedie Photography (right) A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated ...
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
ALMA and VLA observe hundreds of planet-forming disks around infant starsCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Tobin; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; Herschel/ESA An ...
18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest ...
ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a ...
Galactic cosmic rays affect Titan’s atmosphere
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of ...
Understanding the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy
Credit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/CTIO/AURA/DELVE In June 2019, the International Astronomical Union expressed concern about the negative impact ...
Citizen scientists discover rare cosmic pairing
Brown dwarfs traversing space together, but separated by billions of miles, puzzle scientistsCredit: William Pendrill Citizen scientists have uncovered a ...
Galaxy formation simulated without dark matter
A study by the University of Bonn simulates a universe in which Newton's laws are only valid to a limited ...
Astronomers reveal rare double nucleus in nearby ‘Cocoon Galaxy’
Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - The so-called "Cocoon Galaxy" not only has a unique shape, ...
Astronomers discover unusual monster galaxy in the very early universe
XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says UC Riverside-led international teamCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international ...
ALMA catches beautiful outcome of stellar fight
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Olofsson et al. Acknowledgement: Robert Cumming Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO ...
