The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
Credit: StarPlan, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Solar wind samples suggest new physics of massive solar ejections
Credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory/ AIA A new study led by the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa has helped ...
Kazan University’s telescope assists in discovering a binary star system
A sizable international team published findings about the discovery of a new binary star in Astronomy & AstrophysicsCredit: Warsaw University ...
Citizen scientists discover rare cosmic pairing
Brown dwarfs traversing space together, but separated by billions of miles, puzzle scientistsCredit: William Pendrill Citizen scientists have uncovered a ...
NRL-built camera provides view into sun’s polar regions
Credit: (Image Courtesy of ESA/ATG Medialab) WASHINGTON -- The Solar Orbiter mission will use a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-designed and ...
Astronomers discover unusual monster galaxy in the very early universe
XMM-2599 lived fast and died young, says UC Riverside-led international teamCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international ...
UNH researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins
Credit: NASA DURHAM, N.H.-- Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles ...
How’s the weather up there? WVU engineer aims to enhance space weather forecasting
Credit: NASA Usually, the Earth's magnetic field shields us from the misadventures of our nearest star, the mighty sun. But ...
VHF radar operation starts in Thailand for observation of plasma bubble
High-precision plasma bubble observation from the initial generation by installation at the magnetic equatorCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications ...
Stars need a partner to spin Universe’s brightest explosions
When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, University of Warwick astronomers have found that ...
Leading astronomers and geophysicists honored in RAS bicentenary
Credit: Steve Kurtz / UC Santa Cruz The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its medals ...
Christopher Kochanek awarded 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Contributions
Professor of astronomy honored for research into black hole formation, building worldwide network of telescopesCredit: Kevin Grady (Radcliffe Institute) WASHINGTON, ...
Explosion or collapse?
Experiment on beta-decay sheds light on fate of intermediate-mass starsCredit: Picture: X-ray: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M. Burkey et al.; Optical: DSS A group ...
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say Princeton scientists
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain ...
Cosmic bubbles reveal the first stars
Astronomers detect first stars 'bubbling out' from the cosmic dark agesCredit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA ...
The Milky Way’s impending galactic collision is already birthing new stars
Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic CloudsCredit: ...
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxyCredit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University ...
Fast radio burst observations deepen astronomical mystery
Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of a repeating Fast Radio Burst to a nearby spiral galaxy, challenging theories on the ...
Surprise! TESS shows ancient north star undergoes eclipses
Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS Astronomers using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have shown that Alpha Draconis, a well-studied star ...
NASA’s TESS mission uncovers its 1st world with two stars
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School ...
