The give and take of mega-flares from stars
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Getman, et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Spitzer The long relationships between stars and the planets around them - ...
Tag: Astronomy
ALMA discovers earliest gigantic black hole storm
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive ...
Dark matter is slowing the spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered stars, has slowed by ...
The sun’s clock
All cycles fit the picture: New calculations support and expand planetary hypothesisCredit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA Not only the very ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope selects 24 flight-quality heat-vision ‘eyes’
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. ...
Cosmic cartographers map nearby Universe revealing the diversity of star-forming galaxies
Study reveals that the makeup and life cycle of star-forming clouds is dependent on locationCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello (NRAO) A ...
Qorvo provides key enabling tech for identifying, mapping threats from near-earth objects
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading provider of innovative radio frequency (RF) solutions that connect the world, ...
Did heat from impacts on asteroids provide the ingredients for life on Earth?
Credit: Yasui et al. (2021) A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact ...
Which way does the solar wind blow?
Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather predictionCredit: Talwinder Singh, Mehmet S. Yalim, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, and ...
New project aims to digitize astrophysical literature
Credit: Jill Naiman Jill Naiman, teaching assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ...
Largest aerospace society names Sandia researcher ‘Engineer of the Year’
'Jack-of-all-trades' improves future spacefaring calculationsCredit: Photo by Lonnie Anderson, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Humberto "Tito" Silva III, ...
Victoria M Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou receive the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Credit: The Shaw Prize/Victoria M. Kaspi/Chryssa Kouveliotou/IAU The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2021 is shared equally by Victoria M. Kaspi, ...
Dark energy survey releases most precise look at the universe’s evolution
First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over 1/8 of the skyCredit: DOE/FNAL/DECam/R. Hahn/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA In ...
Magnetized threads weave spectacular galactic tapestry
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/Q.D. Wang; Radio: NRF/SARAO/MeerKAT Threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields are weaving a tapestry of energy at ...
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