Astrophysicist’s 2004 theory confirmed: Why the Sun’s composition varies
Credit: American Astronomical Society (AAS) WASHINGTON -- About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Three elder sisters of the Sun with planets
Elder suns with low-mass companionsCredit: Andrzej Romanski/NCU An international team led by Prof. dr habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from ...
NAU astronomer receives prestigious 2021 Cottrell Scholar Award
Tyler Robinson recognized for academic leadership, research quality and innovationCredit: Northern Arizona University A Northern Arizona University astronomer who studies ...
Sensing suns
Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant starsCredit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star ...
Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions
Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar systemCredit: Bill Saxton / NSF / AUI ...
Parker Solar Probe offers stunning view of Venus
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during ...
Researchers detect cold gas pipelines feeding early, massive galaxies
Credit: Hai Fu, University of Iowa To come into being, galaxies need a steady diet of cold gases to undergo ...
ET phones home!
Hebrew University finds first evidence of delayed radio flares after star is destroyed by black holeCredit: Hebrew University A team ...
NASA’s Swift helps tie neutrino to star-shredding black hole
Credit: ZTF/Caltech Optical Observatories For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to ...
Sounding rocket CLASP2 elucidates solar magnetic field
Credit: NAOJ Cooperative operations between a solar observation satellite and a sounding-rocket telescope have measured the magnetic field strength in ...
The CLASP2 space experiment achieves an unprecedented map of the Sun’s magnetic field
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments ...
First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought
Credit: ICRAR Cygnus X-1, a binary star system first discovered in 1964, comprises one of the closest black holes to ...
SETI Institute and NASA team up to bring NASA science into the nation’s community colleges
Innovative program to bring NASA subject matter experts, research findings, and educational resources into science classrooms of community collegesCredit: NASA, ...
NASA’s TESS discovers new worlds in a river of young stars
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Download high-resolution images from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Using observations from NASA's Transiting ...
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