Astronomers See an Enormous Shockwave – 60x Bigger Than the Entire Milky Way Galaxy
Astronomers have a thing for big explosions and collisions, and it always seems like they are trying to one-up themselves in finding a bigger, brighter…
Astronomers have a thing for big explosions and collisions, and it always seems like they are trying to one-up themselves in finding a bigger, brighter…
A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously unwanted light to study even more cosmic objects than…
New study challenges long-held assumptions about the structure of the Sun’s atmosphere. Many coronal loops — ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought…
On February 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days…
New Finding in Astronomy: Black Hole Spins on Its Side Scientist Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Freiburg and Director…
Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time blasts of hot, warm, and…
Strange ‘sonic boom’ accompanied unprecedented event. Mysterious X-rays observed 3.5 years after the merger of two neutron stars Astrophysicists believe a kilonova afterglow or materials…
A team of astronomers have made the discovery of a lifetime that will help answer burning questions on the evolution of stars. The group is…
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just 1000 light-years away in the…
An international team of astronomers made the most detailed images of the largest cosmic shock wave visible from earth. These gigantic shock waves are much…
The Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long bursts of radiation recorded on radio waves. They are extremely powerful — for example, during one of the…
Dr. HE Zhicheng and his coworkers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a new…
A new technology that can improve gravitational-wave detectors, one of the most sensitive instruments used by scientific researchers, has been pioneered by physicists at the…
A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets…
Webb continues on its path to becoming a focused observatory. The team has successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases…
Researchers find salt deposits in an impact crater on the dwarf planet. The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found over 5000 candidate exoplanet candidates, and 197 confirmed exoplanets since its mission began in late 2018. TESS…
A Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low-Frequency Array…