Most-distant galaxy helps elucidate the early universe
Improving our understanding of the most-distant known astrophysical objectCredit: Illustration is courtesy of Jingchuan Yu. Pasadena, CA-- New work from ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Graduate student’s BADASS code has astronomical benefits
Open-source code developed at UC Riverside is free, versatile, and easy to useCredit: Remington Sexton, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
Exoplanet around distant star resembles reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets existCredit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) ...
Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets
UC Riverside-led team looks back to find life beyondCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech UC Riverside is leading one of the NASA Astrobiology Program's ...
Leaving so soon? Unusual planetary nebula fades mere decades after it arrived
Credit: NASA/ESA/Bruce Balick/MartÃn Guerrero/Gerardo Ramos-Larios Stars are rather patient. They can live for billions of years, and they typically make ...
Scientists peer into the 3D structure of the Milky Way
Survey of the sky pushes the boundaries of what we know about the structure of our galaxyCredit: Cardiff University Scientists ...
Gaia: astronomers to release most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC On 3 December an international team of astronomers will announce the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars ...
Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
Physicists report accelerated electrons linked with cosmic raysCredit: NASA/JPL More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are ...
Sun model completely confirmed for the first time
Borexino detector succeeds in measuring the sun's CNO fusion cycleCredit: Borexino Collaboration After the scientists of the Borexino experiment succeeded ...
Earth faster, closer to black hole in new map of galaxy
Credit: NAOJ Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the ...
Fast-moving gas flowing away from young star caused by icy comet vaporisation
Credit: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing ...
Neutrinos yield first experimental evidence of catalyzed fusion dominant in many stars
The CNO energy-production mechanism in the universe is detectedCredit: Borexino Collaboration AMHERST, Mass. - An international team of about 100 ...
Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ...
NRL researchers catch supermassive black holes launching newborn radio jets
Credit: (Photo illustration by National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF) WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers led ...
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