UTSA grows access to world-class observational labs for next gen astronomy students
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) welcomes The University of Texas at ...
Tag: Astronomy
How the Sun pumps out water from Mars into space
Credit: Space Science Council of RAS Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by ...
Our history in the stars
Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar historyCredit: © 2019 Rohan Mehra - Division for Strategic Public ...
Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark, physicists say
ITHACA, N.Y. - Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to ...
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the ...
Recipients of Gruber Foundation 2019 Cosmology Prize announced
Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Ivor Silk are honoured for their seminal work on cosmological structure formation and dark matterCredit: Gruber ...
New clues about how ancient galaxies lit up the universe
Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the Universe's earliest galaxies were ...
A new filter to better map the dark universe
New method developed by Berkeley Lab researchers cuts through galaxies' messy emissions, provides clearer window into dark matter, dark energyCredit: ...
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick ...
Could this rare supernova resolve a longstanding origin debate?
Although hydrogen is the most-abundant element in the universe, it is almost never seen in Type Ia supernova explosions, except ...
First flights
Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin's group launches its first iterations of space-traveling 'wafercraft' UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, ...
Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes
Credit: F. Roelofs and M. Moscibrodzka, Radboud University Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black ...
Secrets of the ‘blue supergiant’ revealed
Blue supergiants are the rock-and-roll stars of the universe. They are massive stars that live fast and die young which ...
Hubble spots a stunning spiral galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al. Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. ...
When it comes to planetary habitability, it’s what’s inside that counts
Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ...
LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
Issued by the LIGO Laboratory, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration. On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser ...
Two neutron stars collided near the solar system billions of years ago
Columbia University and University of Florida study finds sign of cosmic event that created elements that became part of usCredit: ...
Hubble astronomers assemble wide view of the evolving universe
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have put together the largest ...
Hubble assembles wide view of the distant universe
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens ...
Pinpointing Gaia to map the Milky Way
ESO's VST helps determine the spacecraft's orbit to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion starsCredit: ...
