Tag: Astrophysics

Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxyCredit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University ...

Fast radio burst observations deepen astronomical mystery

Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of a repeating Fast Radio Burst to a nearby spiral galaxy, challenging theories on the ...

Surprise! TESS shows ancient north star undergoes eclipses

Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS Astronomers using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have shown that Alpha Draconis, a well-studied star ...

NASA’s TESS mission uncovers its 1st world with two stars

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School ...

NASA planet hunter finds its 1st Earth-size habitable-zone world

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its ...

Astronomers spot distant galaxy group driving ancient cosmic makeover

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and V. Tilvi (ASU) An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found ...

In a nearby galaxy, a fast radio burst unravels more questions than answers

Credit: Danielle Futselaar (artsource.nl) For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast ...

NASA’s Hubble surveys gigantic galaxy

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville) This majestic spiral galaxy might earn the nickname the "Godzilla ...

NASA’s great observatories help astronomers build a 3D visualization of an exploded star

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI) and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning ...

Simulated image demonstrates the power of NASA’s wide field infrared survey telescope

Credit: NASA, STScI and B.F. Williams (University of Washington) Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a ...

Hubble surveys gigantic galaxy

Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville). To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

Scientists develop new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets

Technique could speed search for life in outer spaceCredit: (NASA/GSFC/Friedlander-Griswold) Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in ...

A quantum breakthrough brings a technique from astronomy to the nano-scale

January 2, 2020

Multi-messenger approach allows scientists to probe electronic and magnetic materials at ultra-small length scalesCredit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers at Columbia ...

Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk

December 24, 2019

Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in ...

Massive gas disk raises questions about planet formation theory

December 23, 2019

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Higuchi et al. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by ...

Nightside barrier gently brakes ‘bursty’ plasma bubbles

December 20, 2019

Physicists extend Rice Convection Model with details of magnetospheric buoyancy wavesCredit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2019) - The ...

Scientists find iron ‘snow’ in Earth’s core

Credit: University of Texas at Austin/Jackson School of Geosciences The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, ...

Fireballs: mail from space

Is anything going to hit Earth? A neat approach to make quicker and more exact analyses of fireball observationsCredit: Riitta-Leena ...

The ‘cores’ of massive galaxies had already formed 1.5 billion years after the big bang

Credit: NAOJ/Tanaka et al. 2019 A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion ...

ESO observations reveal black holes’ breakfast at the cosmic dawn