Tag: Astrophysics

The National Science Foundation facility, managed by the University of Central Florida, determines that a newly discovered asteroid won't threaten ...

Credit: Opher, et al. Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system ...

Unprecedented observations shine light on a compact star's final momentsCredit: Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University IT Called "calcium-rich supernovae," these ...

Calcium-rich supernovae, a unique type of exploding stars, produce up to half of the calcium in the UniverseCredit: A. M. ...

Small telescope and inexpensive diffuser key to resultsCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard New detailed observations with NSF's NOIRLab facilities reveal a young ...

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) All the chemical elements in the universe, except for hydrogen and most of the ...

Credit: Adapted from figure 4 in "Accretion-induced prompt black hole formation in asymmetric neutron star mergers, dynamical ejecta and kilonova ...

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Huang and S. Andrews; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic ...

Rare, extremely metal-poor nearby galaxy discovered with machine learningCredit: Credit: NAOJ/Kojima et al. Maunakea, Hawaii - Astronomers using two Maunakea ...

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). This study, just accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, is the first ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new ...

New insight to inform future NASA missionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. A new study ...

Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar ...

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. ...

Credit: ESO Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colours, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas -- ...

Credit: Photo: Zhaohui Shang Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It's because turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere makes light ...

Theory of loop quantum cosmology describes how tiny primordial features account for anomalies at the largest scales of the universeCredit: ...

SAPHiR multi-anvil press solves mystery of the solar systemCredit: Dr. Nicolas P. Walte / TUM Meteorites give us insight into ...

'Stellar archaeology' reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by ...

Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...