Supercomputing Tapped to Study Exotic Matter in Stars
A team at Stony Brook University used ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to model X-ray burst flames spreading across the surface of dense neutron stars. At the…
A team at Stony Brook University used ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to model X-ray burst flames spreading across the surface of dense neutron stars. At the…
How Are Solar Systems Born? Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of…
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma — the first matter ever to be present — during…
Astronomer Reveals Never-Before-Seen Detail of the Center of Our Galaxy New image made using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory hints at previously unknown interstellar energy source…
This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). This galaxy is the eponymous member of…
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the…
Core This is where the Sun generates its energy. The temperature in the core is around 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit). This,…
An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the…
This Week’s Full Moon was the Flower, Corn Planting, or Milk Moon, Vesak or Buddha Purnima, a Lunar Eclipse, and a Supermoon. The full Moon…
Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over ⅛…
A new panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of the Milky Way. This new survey builds on previous Chandra observations,…
Five years on from the first discovery of gravitational waves, an international team of scientists, including from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave…
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations,…
The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C (10,000°F). But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when…
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have described a way to determine the birth population of double neutron stars…
Researchers have confirmed the existence of magnetic plasma waves, known as Alfvén waves, in the Sun’s photosphere. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, provides new…
Japanese researchers have found that collisions of gas clouds hovering in space bring about the birth of star clusters. Stars form by the gravitational contraction…