NASA planet hunter finds its 1st Earth-size habitable-zone world
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Massive gas disk raises questions about planet formation theory
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Higuchi et al. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by ...
Hebrew U researcher cracks newton’s elusive ‘3-body’ problem
Chaos leads scientists to new understanding of centuries'-old quandaryCredit: Noam Chai/Hebrew University It's been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac ...
NASA’s GISMO instrument maps inner Milky Way, sees cosmic ‘candy cane’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite ...
Distant milky way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universe
Credit: SARAO; NRAO/AUI/NSF Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The ...
$1M Schmidt Futures grant awarded to accelerate computer modeling of the cosmos at IAS
James M. Stone, professor of computational astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study, heads IAS project on the Dynamics of ...
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on ...
Water common — yet scarce — in exoplanets
Credit: Amanda Smith The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge ...
Russian astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structure
Credit: @tsarcyanide, MIPT Press Office Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy ...
Swiss space telescope CHEOPS: Rocket launch set for December 17, 2019
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by ...
Sun’s close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
New data from the first two orbits by NASA's Parker Solar ProbeCredit: Image by Jamey Szalay and David McComas; Adapted ...
Inside ITER — the giant fusion reactor
A new book provides a behind-the-scenes view into ITER -- the world's biggest fusion reactor, and discusses the challenges and ...
Detecting solar flares, more in real time
New machine learning tool can improve space weather forecasts, understanding of solar dataCredit: Dan Seaton and J. Marcus Hughes/CU Boulder, ...
Gas giant composition not determined by host star
Unraveling this surprising discrepancy could reveal new details about the planet formation processCredit: Image is by MarioProtIV, courtesy of Wikimedia ...
Scientist leads international team to crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun’s magnetic waves
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A Queen's University Belfast scientist has led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery of why ...
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the termination shockCredit: Figure courtesy of Southwest Research Institute; background ...
Mercury transit observed at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory — IOTW1948
Transit image with a twist (and a turn!)Credit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory About 13 times per century, fleeting ...
NASA’s Webb to unveil the secrets of nearby dwarf galaxies
Credit: Credits: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2 In two separate studies using NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team ...
Planets around a black hole?
Calculations show possibility of bizarre worldsCredit: Kagoshima University Theoreticians in two different fields defied the common knowledge that planets orbit ...
Caught in afterglow: 1st detection of Inverse Compton emission from dying gamma-ray burst
Researchers from the Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) within the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborate ...
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