Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick ...
Could this rare supernova resolve a longstanding origin debate?
Although hydrogen is the most-abundant element in the universe, it is almost never seen in Type Ia supernova explosions, except ...
Particle telescope to probe makeup of cosmic rays and could improve cancer treatment
Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- With a recent three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA, a research team from the University ...
Secrets of the ‘blue supergiant’ revealed
Blue supergiants are the rock-and-roll stars of the universe. They are massive stars that live fast and die young which ...
When it comes to planetary habitability, it’s what’s inside that counts
Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ...
LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
Issued by the LIGO Laboratory, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration. On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser ...
Two neutron stars collided near the solar system billions of years ago
Columbia University and University of Florida study finds sign of cosmic event that created elements that became part of usCredit: ...
Hubble astronomers assemble wide view of the evolving universe
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have put together the largest ...
Star with strange chemistry is from out of town
Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have discovered a star in the Milky Way Galaxy with a chemical composition unlike any other star ...
Astronomers discover 2,000-year-old remnant of a nova
Observation including Göttingen participation confirms one of the oldest Chinese measurementsCredit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, F Göttgens (IAG) For the first ...
Cosmic dust reveals new insights on the formation of solar system
'One of the greatest curiosities is how the universe was formed and how life started. And this weirdo particle showed ...
Dark matter exists: The observations which question its presence in galaxies disproved
Research conducted by SISSA clarifies one of the recent most intriguing controversies on the most widespread form of matter in ...
Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into space
Credit: Credit: ICRAR Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth. Published ...