NASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Surprising number of exoplanets could host life
New insight to inform future NASA missionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. A new study ...
ALMA finds possible sign of neutron star in supernova 1987A
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. ...
Best place on Earth to see stars is at remote site in Antarctica, study shows
Credit: Photo: Zhaohui Shang Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It's because turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere makes light ...
Discovered: Remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind”
'Stellar archaeology' reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by ...
Astronomers pinpoint the best place on Earth for a telescope: High on a frigid Antarctic plateau
Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...
Researchers offer unprecedented look into ‘central engine’ powering a solar flare
An international research team has presented a new look inside the "central engine" of a solar flare accompanied by an ...
Spectacular ultraviolet flash may finally explain how white dwarfs explode
Event also could give insight into dark energy and the creation of ironCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- For just ...
Separating gamma-ray bursts: Students make critical breakthrough
Credit: Johann Bock Severin, Christian Kragh Jespersen and Jonas Vinther By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr ...
ESA/NASA’s solar orbiter returns first data, snaps closest pictures of the sun
Credit: Credits: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL The first images from ESA/NASA's Solar ...
Gigantic, red and full of spots
About eight percent of red giants are covered by sunspot-like, dark areas; these stars rotate faster than others of their ...
Flaring, massively
KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark ...
How colliding neutron stars could shed light on universal mysteries
Credit: Courtesy of Arecibo Observatory/University of Central Florida - William Gonzalez and Andy Torres. An important breakthrough in how we ...
Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sun
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01088 According to the United Nations, about one-fifth of the world's population lives ...
New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way
Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy mergerCredit: Hopkins Research Group, ...
White dwarfs reveal new insights into the origin of carbon in the universe
Credit: Guillaume Seigneuret and NASA A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of ...
Study reveals secret life of lithium in sun-like stars: Created not just destroyed
Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown (STScI) Lithium is becoming common in our everyday lives. It is the key ingredient ...
Stellar fireworks celebrate birth of giant cluster
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble. Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial ...
A binary star as a cosmic particle accelerator
Evidence of very high-energy gamma radiation from Eta CarinaeCredit: Illustration: DESY, Science Communication Lab With a specialised telescope in Namibia ...
NRL telescope onboard ESA, NASA SOHO discovers 4000th comet
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet ...
