New application of AI just removed one of the biggest roadblocks in astrophysics
Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of ...
Tag: Astronomy
New look at a bright stellar nursery
VLA observations reveal changes over timeCredit: CREDIT: DePree, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Spitzer/NASA. This overlay shows radio (orange) and ...
UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
Findings will help better identify Earth-like planets that could sustain lifeCredit: Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Astronomers have identified ...
uGMRT reveals for the first time the patchy environment of a rare cosmic explosion
Credit: A. J. Nayana and Poonam Chandra Scientists from the National Centre for radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of ...
Latest observations by MUSER help clarify solar eruptions
Credit: NAOC Prof. YAN Yihua and his research team from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for axion, proposed component of dark matter
Credit: Modification of work by CXC/MPE/V. Springel The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history ...
Dalian coherent light source reveals oxygen production from three-body photodissociation of water
Credit: DICP The provenance of oxygen on Earth and other solar planetary bodies is a fundamental issue. It is widely ...
Small galaxies likely played important role in evolution of the Universe
Researchers find first-ever galaxy observed in a 'blow-away' stateCredit: Credit: Podevin, J.f., 2006 A new study led by University of ...
Hubble watches how a giant planet grows
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a ...
Black hole-neutron star collisions may help settle dispute over Universe’s expansion
Studying the violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars may soon provide a new measurement of the Universe's expansion ...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...
Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere
Credit: Astrobiology Center An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen's University Belfast, ...
New telescope at ESO’s La Silla joins effort to protect Earth from risky asteroids
Credit: I. Saviane/ESO Part of the world-wide effort to scan and identify near-Earth objects, the European Space Agency's Test-Bed Telescope ...
Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) When the James Webb Space Telescope, despite repeated delays, finally launches in ...
Hubble celebrates 31st birthday with giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a ...
Hubble captures giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed ...
ALMA discovers rotating infant galaxy with help of natural cosmic telescope
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Fujimoto et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a ...
Scientists find CO2-rich liquid water in ancient meteorite
Scientists detect small pockets of carbon dioxide-rich liquid water in a meteorite dating from the early solar systemCredit: Dr. Akira ...
Bubble with titanium trigger titanic explosions
Credit: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/T. Sato et al.; NuSTAR: NASA/NuSTAR Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This ...
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
Credit: Credit: ICRAR / Curtin University. Astronomers have discovered a pulsar--a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves ...
