Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory
Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation ...
Tag: Stars/The Sun
Ultraviolet shines light on origins of the solar system
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team By analyzing the oxygen isotopes (varieties of an element that have some extra neutrons) ...
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
'Shell structures' are first of their kind found in the galaxyCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nearly 3 billion years ago, a ...
Rutgers astronomer receives Packard fellowship for innovative young scientists
Blakesley Burkhart is working to gain a better grasp of how gas and dust become stars and planetsCredit: Courtesy of ...
Star clusters are only the tip of the iceberg
Finding lost star siblingsCredit: © Stefan Meingast, made with Gaia Sky "Clusters form big families of stars that can stay ...
Australian research shows NASA’s James Webb telescopes will reveal hidden galaxies
Blinding glare of quasars can be overcomeCredit: NASA Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, ...
Scientists develop detector for investigating the sun
Credit: Egor Stadnichuk et al./Journal of Instrumentation Researchers from MIPT have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device ...
Modelling extreme magnetic fields and temperature variation on distant stars
Credit: University of Leeds New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for ...
Studying the sun as a star to understand stellar flares and exoplanets
Credit: ISAS/NAOJ New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause ...
In the eye of a stellar cyclone
Sydney undergraduate unlocks bizarre secrets of a ticking time-bomb starCredit: European Southern Observatory While on COVID lockdown, a University of ...
A new look at sunspots
Helping NASA scientists understand major flares and life around other starsCredit: NASA/SDO NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to ...
Hubble sees swirls of forming stars
Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured ...
New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to ...
New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability
UNC-Chapel Hill and NASA measure temperature for the largest ever sample of super flaresCredit: UNC-Chapel Hill Ultraviolet light from giant ...
NASA’s TESS creates a cosmic vista of the northern sky
Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of ...
Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
Credit: Credit: GAMA Survey Team, ICRAR/UWA. Astronomers from The University of Western Australia's node of the International Centre for Radio ...
Revealing secret of lithium-rich stars by monitoring their heartbeats
Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium Lithium is an ancient element that is almost as old as the universe itself. As ...
On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight
Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satelliteCredit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020 Scientists have made significant ...
Stellar explosion in Earth’s proximity
Discovery of iron-60 and manganese-53 substantiates supernova 2.5 million years agoCredit: Dominik Koll / TUM When the brightness of the ...
Venus might be habitable today, if not for Jupiter
Study shows destabilizing effect of the giant gas planetCredit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic Venus might not ...
