Tower extension test a success for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Presence of airborne dust could signify increased habitability of distant planets
Credit: Denis Sergeev/ University of Exeter Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including ...
Shock waves created in the lab mimic supernova particle accelerators
Credit: Courtesy Frederico Fiuza/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding ...
Cosmic quasars embrace 1970s fashion trend
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars -- ...
Eclipse data illuminate mysteries of Sun’s corona
Credit: Solar Wind Sherpas Researchers at the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying ...
Hubble makes surprising find in the early universe
New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early ...
New test of dark energy and expansion from cosmic structures
Credit: Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution ...
Ultra-bright X-ray source awakens near a galaxy not so far away
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbours the Magellanic Clouds, ...
First optical measurements of Milky Way’s Fermi Bubbles probe their origin
Credit: Images by Dhanesh Krishnarao and NASA MADISON -Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time ...
Black holes? They are like a hologram
According to new research, black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional ...
New research deepens understanding of Earth’s interaction with the solar wind
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of ...
Scientists detect crab nebula using innovative gamma-ray telescope
First-of-its-kind telescope promises to shed new light on the physics of high-energy phenomena, from supernovae to dark matterCredit: Photo: Amy ...
Discovery of long sought tiny explosions on the Sun
Credit: Pete Wheeler/ICRAR The Sun is the brightest object in the sky and has been studied for hundreds of years, ...
Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Credit: Sunmyon Chon Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the ...
Class of stellar explosions found to be galactic producers of lithium
Credit: David A. Hardy A team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield of Arizona State University (ASU), has combined ...
Finnish researchers have discovered a new type of matter inside neutron stars
Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC - IT Center for Science A Finnish research group has found strong evidence for the presence ...
Telescope instrument is poised to begin its search for answers about dark energy
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which will map millions of galaxies in 3D, reaches final milestone toward its startupCredit: Courtesy ...
Making matter out of light: High-power laser simulations point the way
Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory A few minutes into the life of the universe, colliding emissions of light energy created ...
Hot stars are plagued by giant magnetic spots, ESO data shows
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, INAF-Padua/S. Zaggia Astronomers using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes have discovered giant spots on the surface of ...
2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics awarded to Andrew Fabian
Andrew Fabian recognised for his pioneering research into the role of black holes in the "ecosystem" of galaxiesCredit: Sam Fabian ...
