HAWC: Are photons of extreme energies coming from the Galaxy’s largest accelerator?
Credit: Source: HAWC For years, in the vastness of our galaxy, astrophysicists have been tracking down pevatrons - natural accelerators ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Lightning strikes played a vital role in life’s origins on Earth
Credit: Lucy Entwisle Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge ...
SwRI researcher theorizes worlds with underground oceans support, conceal life
Layers of ice and rock obviate the need for "habitable zone" and shield life against threatsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute SAN ...
There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres
UChicago study finds way that hot, rocky planets in other systems could form and keep atmospheresCredit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol ...
Scientists sketch aged star system using over a century of observations
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR) Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri ...
HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy
Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ...
Distant planet may be on its second atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble finds
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet ...
A monumental particle accelerator in the Cygnus Cocoon
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN / HAWC At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer ...
Not so fast, supernova: highest-energy cosmic rays detected in star clusters
Credit: Binita Hona For decades, researchers assumed the cosmic rays that regularly bombard Earth from the far reaches of the ...
How fast is the universe expanding? Galaxies provide one answer.
New measure of Hubble constant highlights discrepancy between estimates of our cosmic fateCredit: Photo courtesy of the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey ...
Sixth mirror casting brings Giant Magellan Telescope closer to completion
In a marvel of modern engineering that takes four years of effort, the 8.4-meter mirror is the second-to-last being made ...
Earth has a hot new neighbour — and it’s an astronomer’s dream
A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation could change how we look for life in the universeCredit: RenderArea, https://renderarea.com ...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and ...
NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, ...