Peeling back the darkness of M87
Supercomputers play pivotal role in Event Horizon Telescope's first-ever black hole imageCredit: Lia Medeiros, Chi-Kwan Chan, Feryal Özel, Dimitrios Psaltis ...
Tag: Astronomy
Asteroids help scientists to measure the diameters of faraway stars
New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic ...
Hubble peers at cosmic blue bauble
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al. Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA ...
Astronomers capture first image of a black hole
National Science Foundation and Event Horizon Telescope contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of ...
UTSA tapped by NASA to help build homes on the moon and Mars
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Apr. 10, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has ...
First ever image of a black hole: A CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979
The first real image of a black hole, obtained by the international network of EHT telescopes and published on April ...
Life could be evolving right now on nearest exoplanets
ITHACA, N.Y. - Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises ...
NASA launches two rockets studying auroras
Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield NASA successfully launched the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission on April 5 from the ...
Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology
A collaboration between astrophysicists, conservationists and ecologists aims to save rare and endangered animals A ground-breaking scientific collaboration is harnessing ...
New NASA-funded program to train K-12 students in STEM fields
Outreach components include public lectures, parent nights, and telescope viewing opportunitiesCredit: Mobasher lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - NASA has ...
New book about the IAU published
Credit: Springer/IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together ...
And the blobs just keep on coming
Credit: Tom Bridgman/NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too ...
Russian Science Foundation grant winners for 2019 announced
19 winning bids are from Kazan University Every project is to receive from 4 to 6 million rubles during the ...
Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray bursts
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by ...
VLA makes first direct image of key feature of powerful radio galaxies
Structure suggested by theorists decades ago Astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to ...
Subaru Telescope helps find dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes
Credit: Kavli IPMU An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its ...
New study measures UV-filters in seawater and corals from Hawaii
(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) Scientists have completed the first comprehensive assessment of UV-filters in surface seawater, sediment, ...
Hubble spots flock of cosmic ducks
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Dobbie et al. This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open ...
Hubble watches spun-up asteroid coming apart
Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory) A small asteroid ...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing ...
