Luciano Rezzolla awarded prestigious honorary professorship
The Goethe University physics professor to be Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Dublin Trinity CollegeCredit: Jürgen Lecher, Goethe University "The ...
Tag: Astronomy
New research sheds light on the ages of lunar ice deposits
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south ...
Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts,’ Hubble study finds
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow ...
The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor
UC Riverside-led research shows our galaxy is undergoing a massive merger with its largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic CloudCredit: ...
Physicists have found a way to ‘hear’ dark matter
Credit: Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas ...
Pressure runs high at edge of solar system
Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic ...
A dusty lab in the sky
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority. "The traditional astronomers -- the people ...
A cosmic pretzel
Twin baby stars grow amongst a twisting network of gas and dustCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al. The two baby ...
Three gravitational-wave detectors sign agreement to begin joint observation
Collaboration will enable pinpointing origin of gravitational-wave eventsCredit: ICRR The world's three principal gravitational-wave detectors -- LIGO in the U.S., ...
Massive filaments fuel the growth of galaxies and supermassive black holes
Credit: Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE An international group of scientists led by ...
The violent history of the big galaxy next door
Credit: Dougal Mackey, ANU Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighbouring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now ...
Gemini Observatory with NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
Two ancient migration events in the Andromeda Galaxy: Dynamical footprints uncovered by galactic archaeologists in galaxy next doorCredit: Australian National ...
NSF’s national optical-infrared astronomy research laboratory launched
Major NSF astronomy initiative starts Oct. 1, 2019Credit: National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld On 1 October 2019, the nighttime ...
Telescope seeking new planets launches via football field-sized balloon
Instrument designed and built by UMass Lowell targets Earth-like objects in space hidden by stars' glareCredit: Photo credit: NASA LOWELL, ...
Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of ...
Growing old together: A sharper look at black holes and their host galaxies
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - Some relationships are written in the stars. That's definitely the case for supermassive ...
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missionsCredit: Alan Boss Washington, ...
Oldest galaxy protocluster forms ‘queen’s court’
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection ...
Galaxy surrounded by a halo of tranquil gas
Credit: OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology. Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in ...
A planet that should not exist
Credit: © CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is ...
