Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth
Researchers use unusual meteorite to gain insight into our solar system's past, presentCredit: Ryan Ogliore, Washington University in St. Louis ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Closing the gap on the missing lithium
Researchers account for some of the lithium missing from our universeCredit: ©2021 Hayakawa et al. There is a significant discrepancy ...
A new type of supernova illuminates an old mystery
Credit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory A worldwide team led by scientists at Las Cumbres Observatory has discovered the first ...
Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before
Extreme pressure at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national labsCredit: Photo by Leo Molina ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Like two superheroes finally ...
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
Credit: NASA/SAO/NCSU/Borkowski et al. Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra ...
NASA’s Webb will use quasars to unlock the secrets of the early universe
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI) Quasars are very bright, distant and active supermassive black holes that are millions ...
First clear view of a boiling cauldron where stars are born
UMD-led team used NASA's SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky WayCredit: Artist Rendering ...
Researchers trace dust grain’s journey through newborn solar system
Combining atomic-scale sample analysis and models simulating likely conditions in the nascent solar system, the study revealed clues about the ...
Mystery of Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter Deepens
Credit: Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan ...
Study of young chaotic star system reveals planet formation secrets
New observations of young stellar object Elias 2-27 confirm gravitational instabilities and planet-forming disk mass as key to formation of ...
How a supermassive black hole originates
UC Riverside-led study points to a seed black hole produced by a dark matter halo collapseCredit: Samantha Tieu. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
The give and take of mega-flares from stars
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Getman, et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Spitzer The long relationships between stars and the planets around them - ...
Dark matter is slowing the spin of the Milky Way’s galactic bar
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar, which is made up of billions of clustered stars, has slowed by ...
Boundary of heliosphere mapped for the first time
Using data from NASA's IBEX satellite, scientists created the first-ever 3D map of the boundary between our solar system and ...
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