Tag: Astrophysics

October 12, 2020

Sydney undergraduate unlocks bizarre secrets of a ticking time-bomb starCredit: European Southern Observatory While on COVID lockdown, a University of ...

A new look at sunspots

October 9, 2020

Helping NASA scientists understand major flares and life around other starsCredit: NASA/SDO NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to ...

Hubble sees swirls of forming stars

October 9, 2020

Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured ...

Spitzer space telescope legacy chronicled in Nature Astronomy

October 9, 2020

Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar ...

Vaporized metal in the air of an exoplanet

Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STSci) WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting its star ...

Signals from distant stars connect optical atomic clocks across Earth for the first time

Transportable radio telescopes could provide global high-precision comparisons of the best atomic clocks.Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ...

New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to ...

The black hole always chirps twice: New clues deciphering the shape of black holes

Credit: C. Evans; J.C. Bustillo. Black holes are one the most fascinating objects in the Universe. At their surface, known ...

New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability

October 7, 2020

UNC-Chapel Hill and NASA measure temperature for the largest ever sample of super flaresCredit: UNC-Chapel Hill Ultraviolet light from giant ...

Nobel Prize awarded for research with ESO telescopes on Milky Way’s central black hole

Credit: ESO/S. Gillessen et al. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have jointly been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes black hole discoveries

APS Fellow Andrea Ghez among 2020 Nobel Laureates who uncovered some of the "darkest secrets of the Universe"Credit: American Physical ...

NASA’s TESS creates a cosmic vista of the northern sky

Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of ...

Who is driving whom? Climate and carbon cycle in perpetual interaction

Bremen climate scientists disclose changing feedback mechanisms between climate and global carbon cycle over the last 35 million yearsCredit: William ...

Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation

Credit: Credit: GAMA Survey Team, ICRAR/UWA. Astronomers from The University of Western Australia's node of the International Centre for Radio ...

Could megatesla magnetic fields be realized on Earth?

A team of researchers led by Osaka University discovers "microtube implosion," a novel mechanism that demonstrates the generation of megatesla-order ...

Arrokoth: Flattening of a snowman

Only in the course of several million years did Arrokoth, also known by its nickname Ultima Thule, acquire its bizarre, ...

Revealing secret of lithium-rich stars by monitoring their heartbeats

Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium Lithium is an ancient element that is almost as old as the universe itself. As ...

A RUDN University physicist simplified the Einstein-lovelock theory for black holes

Credit: RUDN University Allowing for quantum corrections, the Einstein-Lovelock theory describes black holes with an equation that contains an infinite ...

On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight

Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satelliteCredit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020 Scientists have made significant ...

Black hole shadow puts general relativity to the test