Tag: Astrophysics

Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around group of neutron starsCredit: D. ...

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of ...

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) Astronomers are winding back the clock on the ...

Credit: DESI website The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and ...

Nearly 200 researchers pitched in to gather, process, and stitch together images for half of the sky to prepare for ...

Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of 700 million objectsElliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona On April 15, 2020, a brief burst ...

Spacecraft detect giant flare in nearby galaxy, allowing localization in star forming regionCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam ...

Credit: IAS; Dana Berry It is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious ...

A multi-institution team from Australia and Germany simulates turbulence happening on both sides of the so-called "sonic scale," opening the ...

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Galaxies begin to "die" when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed ...

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of West Virginia/H. Blumer; Infrared (Spitzer and Wise): NASA/JPLCalTech/Spitzer In 2020, astronomers added a new member to ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), A. Adamo ...

Credit: NASA/ASU NASA's Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L'TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been ...

Credit: Kavli IPMU The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many ...

Details revealed in galaxy's jet 12.8 billion light-years from EarthCredit: Spingola et al.; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF. The supersharp radio "vision" ...

Credit: Stu Shepherd Scientists and engineers at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, announced a major milestone for TRIUMF's Advanced Rare ...

Credit: Credit: Kavli IPMU In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics--the theory that ...

Credit: NAOJ On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target ...

Credit: Yohei Kawazura New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer in Japan have found that the ...