A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe’s missing mass
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matterCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
Tag: Astrophysics
The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter is solved
Credit: Credit: Teymoor Saifollahi and NASA/HST At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of ...
Modelling extreme magnetic fields and temperature variation on distant stars
Credit: University of Leeds New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for ...
Moon to Earth: WA to host space communications station
Credit: Credit: NASA. An optical communications station capable of receiving high-speed data transmissions from space is set to be built ...
Mass loss driven shape evolution model unveils formation of flattened ‘snowman’ (486958) Arrokoth
Credit: ZHANG Xuan from PMO The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan ...
Studying the sun as a star to understand stellar flares and exoplanets
Credit: ISAS/NAOJ New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause ...
ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other organisations around the world, astronomers have spotted ...
UMD astronomers find x-rays lingering years after landmark neutron star collision
New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these eventsCredit: Image credit: E. Troja ...
In the eye of a stellar cyclone
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
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
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
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 ...
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