Nahum Arav part of team to discover quasar tsunamis
Credit: Virginia Tech Using the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech's ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere
Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere, despite its name, is not actually a sphere. Space physicists have ...
Breakthrough made towards building the world’s most powerful particle accelerator
Credit: UNIST An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization ...
Observed: An occultation of a brown dwarf by another
Credit: University of Birmingham / Amanda J. Smith. The finding was by chance, when the scientists were working on the ...
Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic hydrogen gas blobsCredit: Yiping Ao/VLT/Hawk-I/Blanco ...
Turbulent convection at the heart of stellar activity
By combining modern data analysis techniques with stellar structure modelling for main-sequence and giant stars, researchers shed new light on ...
Astronomers pinpoint rare binary brown dwarf
Credit: University of Birmingham / Amanda J. Smith. Astronomers working on 'first light' results from a newly commissioned telescope in ...
Dimming Betelgeuse likely isn’t cold, just dusty, new study shows
Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al. Late last year, news broke that the star Betelgeuse was fading significantly, ultimately dropping to ...
European Astronomical Society prize for star astronomer
Credit: Lancaster University Dr Jorryt Matthee has been awarded a 25,000 € MERAC Prize by the European Astronomical Society for ...
Is life a game of chance?
Study reveals life in the universe could be common, but not in our neighborhoodCredit: Pixabay CC-0 https://pixabay.com/illustrations/dna-string-biology-3d-1811955/ To help answer ...
ALMA spots metamorphosing aged star
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tafoya et al. An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured ...
Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electronsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 2, ...
Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve
At only 1% the age of the sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally ...
Two stars merged to form massive white dwarf
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs ...
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
Credit: Michelle Kunimoto University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, ...
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Naval Research Lab/Giacintucci, S.; XMM:ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRTN; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the ...
Solar storms could scramble whales’ navigational sense
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio staticCredit: Nicholas Metheny NOAA DURHAM, N.C. ...
Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy’s halo suggests turbulent past
Credit: NASA/Digitized Sky Survey/P. Goudfrooij (STScI)/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the ...
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
Credit: Gudmundur Stefansson (left) and Ethan Tweedie Photography (right) A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated ...
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
ALMA and VLA observe hundreds of planet-forming disks around infant starsCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Tobin; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; Herschel/ESA An ...
