Found: Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies
Credit: Caltech/IPAC Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
A peek at the birth of the universe
University researchers publish study on new telescopeCredit: Photo: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is ...
‘Terminators’ on the Sun trigger plasma tsunamis and the start of new solar cycles
The next solar cycle is predicted to take off within a yearCredit: ©UCAR Visualization: Mausumi Dikpati, NCAR In a pair ...
Astronomers make first calculations of magnetic activity in ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanets
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope shines with American ingenuity
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center To send humans to the Moon 50 years ago, an entire nation rose ...
Supernova observation first of its kind using NASA satellite
Data from NASA and Ohio State offer new clues about why stars explode COLUMBUS, Ohio--When NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...
New measurement of universe’s expansion rate is ‘stuck in the middle’
Red giant stars observed by Hubble Space Telescope used to make an entirely new measurement of how fast the universe ...
New Hubble constant measurement adds to mystery of universe’s expansion rate
Credit: NASA, ESA, W. Freedman (University of Chicago), ESO, and the Digitized Sky Survey Astronomers have made a new measurement ...
Two GW researchers receive prestigious presidential award
Chunlei Liang and Volker J. Sorger received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and EngineersCredit: The George Washington University ...
‘Moon-forming’ circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A. Isella; ESO Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of ...
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
Credit: Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre University), A. Laor (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), and ...
Bath honours world-leading astronomer
University of Bath awards Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell an Honorary Degree as part of its summer graduation celebrations The ...
Exactly how fast is the universe expanding?
Princeton astrophysicists are closing in on the Hubble constantCredit: Video by Ore Gottlieb and Ehud Nakar, Tel Aviv University Exactly ...
New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe’s expansion
Neutron star mergers can provide new 'cosmic ruler' Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a ...
Supercomputer shows ‘Chameleon Theory’ could change how we think about gravity
Credit: Christian Arnold/Baojiu Li/Durham University. Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be ...
Massive stars grow same way as light stars, just bigger
Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth ...
Deep-CEE: The AI deep learning tool helping astronomers explore deep space
Credit: NASA/ESA Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures in the cosmos, but despite being millions of lightyears ...
How scientists used NASA data to predict appearance of July 2 eclipse
Animation comparing the predicted appearance of the Sun's corona during the July 2, 2019, eclipse with a photo of the ...
Hubble captures the galaxy’s biggest ongoing stellar fireworks show
In the mid-1800s, mariners sailing the southern seas navigated at night by a brilliant star in the constellation Carina. The ...
Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies
New data from the Keck Observatory show gas directly spiraling into growing galaxiesCredit: Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory Galaxies grow ...
