Rogue’s gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planetsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Exotic mixtures
X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and starsCredit: HZDR / Sahneweiß Recreating extreme conditions in the ...
Hubble provides holistic view of stars gone haywire
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT) As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions ...
KU Leuven researchers shed new light on solar flares
Credit: © KU Leuven - Wenzhi Ruan Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the ...
NASA’s IBEX charts 11 years of change at boundary to interstellar space
Results show the shifting outer heliosphere in great detailCredit: Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Conceptual Imaging Lab Far, far beyond the ...
As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according ...
Why pulsars shine bright: A half-century-old mystery solved
Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma ...
Scientists carry out first space-based measurement of neutron lifetime
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from ...
A method has been developed to study the ‘traces’ of coronal mass ejections at the Sun.
Credit: STEREO/EUVI Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz ...
New ‘sun clock’ quantifies extreme space weather switch on/off
200 years of sunspot observations used by University of Warwick researchers to create 'sun clock'Credit: University of Warwick Extreme space ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New gravitational-wave model can bring neutron stars into even sharper focus
Credit: University of Birmingham Gravitational-wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that promises to yield ...
