NSF’s national optical-infrared astronomy research laboratory launched
Major NSF astronomy initiative starts Oct. 1, 2019Credit: National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld On 1 October 2019, the nighttime ...
Tag: Astronomy
Telescope seeking new planets launches via football field-sized balloon
Instrument designed and built by UMass Lowell targets Earth-like objects in space hidden by stars' glareCredit: Photo credit: NASA LOWELL, ...
Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of ...
Growing old together: A sharper look at black holes and their host galaxies
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - Some relationships are written in the stars. That's definitely the case for supermassive ...
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missionsCredit: Alan Boss Washington, ...
Oldest galaxy protocluster forms ‘queen’s court’
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection ...
Galaxy surrounded by a halo of tranquil gas
Credit: OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology. Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in ...
A planet that should not exist
Credit: © CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is ...
Black hole shreds star, UH astronomer on discovery team
Credit: Illustration by Robin Dienel courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the ...
Found: ‘Poster child’ for being shredded by a black hole
Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand these mysterious phenomenaCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel, courtesy ...
Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, astronomers analysed the signal from a fast radio burst to ...
NASA visualization shows a black hole’s warped world
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our ...
New model proposes jets go superluminal in gamma-ray bursts
Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab (used with permission by Astronomy Picture of the Day, which is co-managed by Robert Nemiroff ...
Naming of new interstellar visitor: 2I/Borisov
Second interstellar object has been spotted and named just two years after the firstCredit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA On 30 August 2019 ...
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