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April 29, 2024
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Apr. 26, 2024 Researchers co-led a study that will improve the detection of gravitational waves--ripples in space and ...
Apr. 24, 2024 While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope searched for an afterglow from the ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy, providing important clues on how the space between galaxies is polluted with chemical ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas around our supermassive ...
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Apr. 23, 2024 Astrophysicists have made a significant step toward solving the last puzzle in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory by observing the weak to strong ...
Apr. 12, 2024 Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...
Apr. 16, 2024 A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...
Apr. 12, 2024 In 2022, astronomers discovered the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) of all time. Now, astronomers confirm that a 'normal' supernova, the telltale ...
Apr. 12, 2024 An international research team has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres, and placed constraints on the ...
Apr. 12, 2024 A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...
Apr. 11, 2024 When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Researchers have found that baby stars discharge plumes of gas, dust, and magnetic flux from their protostellar disk. The protostellar disk that surrounds developing stars are constantly penetrated ...
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Apr. 8, 2024 Captured by cutting-edge radio telescope technology, a chance reactivation of a magnetar -- the Universe's most powerful magnets -- has revealed an unexpectedly complex ...
Apr. 8, 2024 High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape of this plasma defy all conventional explanations. Dubbed the ...
Apr. 5, 2024 A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...
Apr. 5, 2024 Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this galaxy ...
Apr. 2, 2024 One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it s ...
Mar. 28, 2024 New research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed by a star other than our ...
Mar. 28, 2024 The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution processes, in a galaxy where stars are forming much more ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days ...
Mar. 27, 2024 A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the distribution of elements needed for life. The jets of matter, expelled by stars deemed 'cosmic ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Astronomers have concluded that an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, are not young as previously thought but rather lead relatively short ...
Mar. 26, 2024 An orange dwarf star has yielded the tiniest 'starquakes' ever recorded, measured by an international team of ...
Mar. 26, 2024 An Antarctic large-scale experiment is striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level. An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems to hold the ...
Mar. 25, 2024 New work aimed to study the star-forming gas in a single radio galaxy. Although the team didn't find any star-forming gas in the galaxy they were studying, they instead discovered other galaxies ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Astronomers have identified what could be two of the Milky Way's earliest building blocks: Named 'Shakti' and 'Shiva', these appear to be the remnants of two galaxies that ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A group of high school students from Oakland, California, made contributions to the field of exoplanet research. Researchers worked with the students to use backpack-sized digital smart telescopes. ...
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Telescope Detects Unprecedented Behavior from Nearby Magnetar
- Inexplicable Flying Fox Found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes
- Neutron Stars Are Key to Understanding Elusive Dark Matter
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Stellar Collisions Produce Strange, Zombie-Like Survivors
- First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Astronomers Conduct First Search for Forming Planets With New Space Telescope
- Persistent Hiccups in a Far-Off Galaxy Draw Astronomers to New Black Hole Behavior
- Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- 'Cosmic Cannibals' Expel Jets Into Space at 40 Percent the Speed of Light
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Sleeping Supermassive Black Holes Awakened Briefly by Shredded Stars
- Tiniest 'starquake' Ever Detected
- Scientists on the Hunt for Evidence of Quantum Gravity's Existence at the South Pole
Monday, March 25, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- High School Students Contribute to Exoplanet Discovery
- Scientists Find One of the Most Ancient Stars That Formed in Another Galaxy
- Quantum Tornado Provides Gateway to Understanding Black Holes
- Astrophysicist's Research Could Provide a Hint in the Search for Dark Matter
Monday, March 18, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- Cheers! NASA's Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
- Explaining a Supernova's 'string of Pearls'
Monday, March 11, 2024
- Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 With NASA's Webb
- Nasa’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
- Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars
- Astronomers Spot Oldest 'dead' Galaxy Yet Observed
- Discovery Tests Theory on Cooling of White Dwarf Stars
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Groundbreaking Survey Reveals Secrets of Planet Birth Around Dozens of Stars
- What Makes Black Holes Grow and New Stars Form? Machine Learning Helps Solve the Mystery
Monday, March 4, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
- New Insights on How Galaxies Are Formed
- Ultraviolet Radiation from Massive Stars Shapes Planetary Systems
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Astronomers Measure Heaviest Black Hole Pair Ever Found
- Astronomers Discover Heavy Elements After Bright Gamma-Ray Burst from Neutron Star Merger
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- A New Beginning: The Search for More Temperate Tatooines
- Brightest and Fastest-Growing: Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- New Nuclei Can Help Shape Our Understanding of Fundamental Science on Earth and in the Cosmos
- A Star Like a Matryoshka Doll: New Theory for Gravastars
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- A Long, Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Not So Far Away
- Newly Discovered Carbon Monoxide-Runaway Gap Can Help Identify Habitable Exoplanets
- Which Came First: Black Holes or Galaxies?
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test
- The Hottest Catalog of the Year: Comprehensive List of Slow-Building Solar Flares
Monday, January 29, 2024
- Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies
- Astronomers Spot 18 Black Holes Gobbling Up Nearby Stars
- Cosmic Building Blocks of Life Discovered Through the Electron Microscope
Friday, January 26, 2024
- Astronomers Unravel Mysteries of Planet Formation and Evolution in Distant Planetary System
- Stars Travel More Slowly at Milky Way's Edge
- 'Old Smokers' and 'squalling Newborns' Among Hidden Stars Spotted for First Time
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
- Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? MeerKAT Uncovers a Mysterious Object in Milky Way
- Origin of Intense Light in Supermassive Black Holes and Tidal Disruption Events Revealed
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
- Astronomers Detect Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed
- Study Delivers Detailed Photos of Galaxies' Inner Structures
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
- Close Encounters of the Supermassive Black Hole Kind
- Our Surprising Magnetic Galaxy
- Surprise Gamma-Ray Feature Beyond Our Galaxy
- Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies
- NASA's Webb Discovers Dusty 'cat's Tail' In Beta Pictoris System
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
- 'Blob-Like' Home of Farthest-Known Fast Radio Burst Is Collection of Seven Galaxies
Monday, January 8, 2024
- Final Supernova Results from Dark Energy Survey Offer Unique Insights Into the Expansion of the Universe
- Three Iron Rings in a Planet-Forming Disk
- Space Oddity: Uncovering the Origin of the Universe's Rare Radio Circles
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Friday, December 29, 2023
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Friday, December 22, 2023
- Hubble Sights a Galaxy With 'forbidden' Light
- Researchers Study a Million Galaxies to Find out How the Universe Began
Thursday, December 21, 2023
- Organic Compounds in Asteroids Formed in Colder Regions of Space
- Astronomers Detect Seismic Ripples in Ancient Galactic Disk
- New 1.5-Billion-Pixel Image Shows Running Chicken Nebula in Unprecedented Detail
- Supernova Encore: Second Lensed Supernova in a Distant Galaxy
- Pancake Stack of Films on a Balloon Most Accurate Gamma-Ray Telescope
- Cosmic Lights in the Forest
Monday, December 18, 2023
Friday, December 15, 2023
- Scientists Measure the Distance to Stars by Their Music
- New Red Galaxies Turn out to Be Already Known Blue Galaxies
- Astronomers Discover First Population of Binary Stripped Stars
- Reaching for the (Invisible) Stars