Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR) Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri ...

Astronomers have detected a moving supermassive black holeCredit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black ...

Credit: LI Leping Magnetic reconnection refers to the reconfiguration of magnetic field geometry. It plays an elemental role in the ...

Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) The planet GJ 1132 b appears to have begun life as a gaseous ...

Unique technique may help planetary defense prepare for asteroids on a collision course with EarthCredit: Credit: Arecibo Observatory/Israel Cabrera Using ...

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet ...

Frontera supercomputer, a community resource for IceCube Neutrino Observatory research, enables the discovery of new high-energy particleCredit: IceCube Collaboration The ...

Credit: Source: IFJ PAN / HAWC At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer ...

Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Jenny Leibundgut The conditions on Earth are ideal for life. Most ...

Credit: © Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Looking at the night sky, one's thoughts might be drawn ...

Credit: Binita Hona For decades, researchers assumed the cosmic rays that regularly bombard Earth from the far reaches of the ...

Credit: IceCube Collaboration On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino was hurtling through space at nearly ...

The South Pole neutrino detector saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in ...

Credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña/Sciworthy.com A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of ...

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/JPL/T. Connor; Optical: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Infrared: W.M. Keck Observatory; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long ...

Astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutionsCredit: E Lentz If travel to distant stars within an individual's ...

Credit: ERG science center A critical ingredient for auroras exists much higher in space than previously thought, according to new ...

New measure of Hubble constant highlights discrepancy between estimates of our cosmic fateCredit: Photo courtesy of the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey ...

Credit: Takhistov et. al. What is the origin of black holes and how is that question connected with another mystery, ...