Astrophysics: A direct view of star/disk interactions
Credit: Mark A. Garlick A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Can black hole fire up cold heart of the phoenix?
Credit: Akahori et al. Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the ...
CU scientists create batteries that could make it easier to explore Mars
NASA-funded research recently reported in an American Chemical Society journalCredit: CU College or Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Electrifying research ...
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI) In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the ...
Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine
Credit: Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois ...
Rare encounters between cosmic heavyweights
Maunakea observatories discover three pairs of merging supermassive black holesCredit: Silverman et al. Maunakea, Hawaii - A cosmic dance between ...
Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole
Credit: Gabriel Pérez DÃaz, SMM (IAC). Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, ...
Carnegie Mellon named NSF planning institute for artificial intelligence in physics
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University has received a $500,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ...
A galaxy’s stop-and-start young radio jets
Very long baseline array reveals object's historyCredit: Lister, et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF In this image, made with the National ...
NASA missions explore a ‘TIE Fighter’ active galaxy
Credit: NRAO Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has ...
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescopeCredit: Tokyo University of Science ...
Ground segment testing a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...
Observing ancient neutrinos
Super-Kamiokande gets an upgrade to see neutrinos from ancient supernovaeCredit: © 2020 Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), ...
Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (California Institute of Technology), A. Pagan (STScI) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the ...
Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Pagan (STScI), and Q. Zhang (Caltech) NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on ...
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
Credit: Amit Shukla / Indian Institute of Technology Indore Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that ...
Research team develops the first physics-based method for predicting large solar flares
Credit: Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University Solar flares emit sudden, strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's ...
Microscopic deformation of a neutron star inferred from a distance of 4500 light-years
Credit: Sudip Bhattacharyya Imagine that the size of a bacterium is measured from a distance of about 4500 light-years. This ...
Researchers measure the global magnetic field in solar corona for the first time
Credit: YANG Zihao and TIAN Hui The Sun is a magnetized star. Its magnetic field is essentially three dimensional and ...
The most sensitive instrument in the search for life in space comes from Bern
Credit: © University of Bern, Image: Andreas Riedo The question of whether life exists beyond the Earth is one of ...
