Plasma jets reveal magnetic fields far, far away
Radio telescope images enable a new way to study magnetic fields in galaxy clusters millions of light years awayCredit: Modified ...
Tag: Astronomy
ALMA discovers the most ancient galaxy with spiral morphology
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Tsukui & S. Iguchi Analyzing data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers found ...
Hubble tracks down fast radio bursts to galaxies’ spiral arms
Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Alexandra Mannings (UC Santa Cruz), Wen-fai Fong (Northwestern) IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Astronomers using NASA's ...
Chandra discoveries in 3D available on new platform
Credit: NASA/CXC/Brown Univ./A. Dupuis et al. A collection of the 3D objects from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is now available ...
New FAST discoveries shed light on pulsars
Credit: NAOC Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. HAN Jinlin from National ...
NASA’s Webb to study how massive stars’ blasts of radiation influence their environments
Credit: Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Massimo Robberto (STScI, ESA), Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan ...
Nickel atoms detected in the cold gas around interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Credit: ESO/P.Guzik/M.Drahus Unbound nickel atoms and other heavy elements have been observed in very hot cosmic environments, including the atmospheres ...
NSF EPSCoR grant will advance understanding of neutrinos and support new faculty
Credit: Benjamin Eberhardt, IceCubeNSF. LAWRENCE -- Neutrinos are almost intangible subatomic particles that hardly interact with matter in the universe. ...
Stunning simulation of stars being born is most realistic ever
First high-resolution model to simulate an entire gas cloud where stars are bornCredit: Northwestern University/UT Austin A team including Northwestern ...
To map the universe, astrophysicists launch largest sky survey yet
Nearly 40 years after creating the first, iconic map of the universe, researchers aim for the largest map ever.Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. ...
Successful start of dark energy spectroscopic instrument follows record-setting trial run
International collaboration aims for 3D map of the universe, unraveling of mysterious 'dark energy'Credit: DESI collaboration and DESI Legacy Imaging ...
Charting the expansion history of the universe with supernovae
Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for ...
Wayne State student selected for DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program
Students will perform research at national laboratoriesCredit: David Moutard DETROIT - The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science has ...
LAMOST helps Gaia achieve millimagnitude photometry precision
Credit: NIU Zexi The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has helped Gaia achieve millimagnitude (mmag) precision in ...
Webb’s golden mirror wings open one last time on earth
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn For the last time while it is on Earth, the world's largest and most powerful space ...
FAST detects 3D spin-velocity alignment in a pulsar
Credit: NAOC Pulsars - another name for fast-spinning neutron stars - originate from the imploded cores of massive dying stars ...
The Belgian Francqui Prize 2021 awarded to Michaël Gillon
The prestigious scientific prize to Michaël Gillon for his pioneering research in exoplanetology and astrobiologyCredit: University of Liège - Michel ...
Recipients of 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize announced
Marc Kamionkowski, Uroš Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga are honoured for their contributions to the study of the early UniverseCredit: Gruber ...
A new window to see hidden side of magnetized universe
Credit: Credit: Chibueze, Sakemi, Ohmura et al. (MeerKAT image); Takumi Ohmura, Mami Machida, Hirotaka Nakayama, 4D2U Project, NAOJ (ATERUI II ...
Mysterious hydrogen-free supernova sheds light on stars’ violent death throes
Credit: Kavli IPMU / Aya Tsuboi A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what's possible at the ...
