NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on ...
Tag: Astronomy
NSF grants Illinois-led team $4.4 million to develop distributed space telescope
Credit: Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign More than 91 million miles from Earth, the sun poses a ...
ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C.M. Casey et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted ...
Water common — yet scarce — in exoplanets
Credit: Amanda Smith The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge ...
Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies
Credit: NAOC Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu’s mysterious particle events
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's ...
New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
Technology 'squeezes' out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detectedCredit: Image: Maggie Tse Just a year ago, ...
Swiss space telescope CHEOPS: Rocket launch set for December 17, 2019
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by ...
Sun’s close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
New data from the first two orbits by NASA's Parker Solar ProbeCredit: Image by Jamey Szalay and David McComas; Adapted ...
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age
Data gathered by NASA's now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mysteryCredit: NASA/JPL Caltech/R.Hurt/SSC Star-quakes recorded by ...
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 ...
Gas giant composition not determined by host star
Unraveling this surprising discrepancy could reveal new details about the planet formation processCredit: Image is by MarioProtIV, courtesy of Wikimedia ...
Scientist leads international team to crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun’s magnetic waves
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A Queen's University Belfast scientist has led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery of why ...
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the termination shockCredit: Figure courtesy of Southwest Research Institute; background ...
Mercury transit observed at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory — IOTW1948
Transit image with a twist (and a turn!)Credit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory About 13 times per century, fleeting ...
Image release: Giant magnetic ropes in a galaxy’s halo
VLA observations reveal details of magnetic structureCredit: Composite image by Jayanne English of the University of Manitoba, with NRAO VLA ...
NASA’s Webb to unveil the secrets of nearby dwarf galaxies
Credit: Credits: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2 In two separate studies using NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team ...
Planets around a black hole?
Calculations show possibility of bizarre worldsCredit: Kagoshima University Theoreticians in two different fields defied the common knowledge that planets orbit ...
Caught in afterglow: 1st detection of Inverse Compton emission from dying gamma-ray burst
Researchers from the Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) within the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborate ...
Extremely energetic particles coupled with the violent death of a star for the first time
Credit: Johan Fynbo and Daniele Malesani Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and DTU Space in Lyngby ...
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