Tag: Astronomy

Astronomers detect first stars 'bubbling out' from the cosmic dark agesCredit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA ...

The Milky Way’s impending galactic collision is already birthing new stars

Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic CloudsCredit: ...

New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries

Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxyCredit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University ...

Fast radio burst observations deepen astronomical mystery

Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of a repeating Fast Radio Burst to a nearby spiral galaxy, challenging theories on the ...

Surprise! TESS shows ancient north star undergoes eclipses

Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS Astronomers using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have shown that Alpha Draconis, a well-studied star ...

NASA’s TESS mission uncovers its 1st world with two stars

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School ...

NASA planet hunter finds its 1st Earth-size habitable-zone world

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its ...

Astronomers spot distant galaxy group driving ancient cosmic makeover

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and V. Tilvi (ASU) An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found ...

In a nearby galaxy, a fast radio burst unravels more questions than answers

Credit: Danielle Futselaar (artsource.nl) For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast ...

NASA’s Hubble surveys gigantic galaxy

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville) This majestic spiral galaxy might earn the nickname the "Godzilla ...

NASA’s great observatories help astronomers build a 3D visualization of an exploded star

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI) and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning ...

Simulated image demonstrates the power of NASA’s wide field infrared survey telescope

Credit: NASA, STScI and B.F. Williams (University of Washington) Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a ...

Scientists develop new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets

Technique could speed search for life in outer spaceCredit: (NASA/GSFC/Friedlander-Griswold) Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in ...

Task force recommends changes to increase African-American physics and astronomy students