How colliding neutron stars could shed light on universal mysteries
Credit: Courtesy of Arecibo Observatory/University of Central Florida - William Gonzalez and Andy Torres. An important breakthrough in how we ...
Tag: Astronomy
New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way
Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy mergerCredit: Hopkins Research Group, ...
The collective power of the solar system’s dark, icy bodies
Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies ...
FEFU astrophysicists revealed ten-microne silicate feature in large dust particles
Credit: FEFU press office Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that ...
2020 Jansky Lectureship awarded to University of Cornell professor Martha P. Haynes
Credit: College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have ...
Study reveals secret life of lithium in sun-like stars: Created not just destroyed
Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI) Lithium is becoming common in our everyday lives. It is the key ingredient ...
Grant awarded to UC Riverside physicist to explore the dark sector
Proposed work is expected to significantly increase knowledge of dark matterCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The John ...
Stellar fireworks celebrate birth of giant cluster
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble. Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial ...
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of 2 strongly interacting exoplanets
Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new ...
FAST detects neutral hydrogen emission from extragalactic galaxies for the first time
Credit: CASSACA The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world. ...
First exposed planetary core discovered allows glimpse inside other worlds
The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering ...
Excess neutrinos and missing gamma rays?
Coronae of supermassive black holes may be the hidden sources of mysterious cosmic neutrinos seen on EarthCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The origin ...
To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter
Credit: David Champion The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when ...
A cosmic mystery: ESO telescope captures the disappearance of a massive star
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable ...
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