Tag: Astrophysics

Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- With a recent three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA, a research team from the University ...

Magnetic measurement images showing how the number of skyrmions in a nanomaterial varies with magnetic field strength. Magnetic skyrmions are ...

Credit: (NASA/Space Test Program-Houston 6) WASHINGTON -- Developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division, in conjunction with ...

Credit: F. Roelofs and M. Moscibrodzka, Radboud University Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black ...

Blue supergiants are the rock-and-roll stars of the universe. They are massive stars that live fast and die young which ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al. Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. ...

Issued by the LIGO Laboratory, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration. On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser ...

Columbia University and University of Florida study finds sign of cosmic event that created elements that became part of usCredit: ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have put together the largest ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens ...

ESO's VST helps determine the spacecraft's orbit to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion starsCredit: ...

Credit: Joe Insely, Silvio Rizzi and HACC Team/Argonne National Laboratory Computing--Virtual universes Using Summit, the world's most powerful supercomputer housed ...

Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have discovered a star in the Milky Way Galaxy with a chemical composition unlike any other star ...

Credit: J. M. Madiedo / MIDAS Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived ...

Observation including Göttingen participation confirms one of the oldest Chinese measurementsCredit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, F Göttgens (IAG) For the first ...

Research conducted by SISSA clarifies one of the recent most intriguing controversies on the most widespread form of matter in ...

Credit: Credit: ICRAR Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth. Published ...

A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Ferraro et al. This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular ...

LHAASO is expected to decode cosmic-ray originsCredit: Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Science China's ...