Teardrop star reveals hidden supernova doom
International team led by University of Warwick makes rare sighting of a binary star system heading towards supernovaCredit: University of ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Danish student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes
Credit: credit: interstellar.wiki/CC BY-NC License. In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may ...
SwRI’s Bolton receives NSS Space Pioneer Award
National Space Society recognizes accomplishments in opening the space frontierCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- July 12, 2021 -- ...
LHAASO’s measurement of Crab Nebula brightness yields new UHE gamma-ray standard
Credit: Image by Institute of High Energy Physics The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), one of China's key ...
New radio receiver opens wider window to radio universe
Credit: Osaka Prefecture University/NAOJ Researchers have used the latest wireless technology to develop a new radio receiver for astronomy. The ...
Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA/Hubble (elliptical galaxy M87), ESA/Hubble & NASA (lenticular galaxy NGC 6861 and the colliding Antennae galaxies), and David ...
Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth
Researchers use unusual meteorite to gain insight into our solar system's past, presentCredit: Ryan Ogliore, Washington University in St. Louis ...
Chasing cosmic particles with radio antennas in Greenland’s ice
Pioneering project listens for neutrinos from outer spaceCredit: Credit: RNO-G, Cosmin Deaconu In Greenland's ice sheet, a set-up unlike any ...
Observation, simulation, and AI join forces to reveal a clear universe
Credit: @ The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Japanese astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise ...
Closing the gap on the missing lithium
Researchers account for some of the lithium missing from our universeCredit: ©2021 Hayakawa et al. There is a significant discrepancy ...
The final dance of mixed neutron star-black hole pairs
Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of cataclysmic event in the cosmos: the merger of a neutron star ...
Black holes swallow neutron stars like ‘Pac Man’
Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, "like Pac Man", in a discovery documenting the ...
Unique exoplanet photobombs CHEOPS study of nearby star system
Photobombs - when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera's field of sight during the taking of a photograph - ...
CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) ...
A new type of supernova illuminates an old mystery
A worldwide team led by scientists at Las Cumbres Observatory has discovered the first convincing evidence for a new type ...
The discovery of a new type of supernova illuminates a medieval mystery
A team led by astronomers at UC Santa Barbara have confirmed the existence of an elusive new type of supernova ...
NASA completes additional tests to diagnose computer problem on Hubble space telescope
NASA is continuing to diagnose a problem with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope after completing another set ...
Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before
Extreme pressure at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national labs ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Like two superheroes finally joining forces, Sandia National ...
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast ...
Theoretical proof that a strong force can create light-weight subatomic particles
Using only a pen and paper, a theoretical physicist has proved a decades-old claim that a strong force called Quantum ...
