NASA launches two rockets studying auroras
Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield NASA successfully launched the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission on April 5 from the ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Unexpected rain on sun links two solar mysteries
Credit: Credits: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory/Emily Mason For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every ...
New book about the IAU published
Credit: Springer/IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together ...
And the blobs just keep on coming
Credit: Tom Bridgman/NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too ...
Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray bursts
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by ...
Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’
Tides and surf can be used for non-destructive analysis of subsurface; study highlighted by American Physical SocietyCredit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ ...
Subaru Telescope helps find dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes
Credit: Kavli IPMU An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its ...
Hubble spots flock of cosmic ducks
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Dobbie et al. This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open ...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing ...
Ultra-sharp images make old stars look absolutely marvelous!
Credit: Composite image produced by Mattia Libralato of Space Telescope Science Institute Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini ...
Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms
Astrophysicists observe physics phenomena in gas streamsCredit: Hinode JAXA/NASA Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a ...
Giant X-ray ‘chimneys’ are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way’s center
Study co-authored by UCLA astronomer provides close look at what might be happening in other, more energetic galaxiesCredit: Gabriele Ponti/MPE/INAF ...
Astronomers find ‘cannonball pulsar’ speeding through space
Object got powerful 'kick' from supernova explosion Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) ...
NASA’s Fermi Satellite clocks ‘cannonball’ pulsar speeding through space
New radio observations combined with 10 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have revealed a runaway pulsar ...