New Japanese Telescope Detects Immense “Superflare” on Nearby Star
KyotoU’s new Seimei telescope detects enormous ‘superflare’ on a nearby star The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in…
KyotoU’s new Seimei telescope detects enormous ‘superflare’ on a nearby star The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in…
University of Warwick-led team discovers first exposed core of a planet Highly unusual planet found in the Neptunian Desert, where such massive objects are rarely…
Catch the comet in the morning sky until July 11, after which you can find it just after sunset until mid-August. A comet visiting from…
Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy merger. Astronomers can go their whole careers without finding…
The meridional flow in the Sun’s convection zone forms one gigantic cell in each hemisphere. At a depth of 200 thousand kilometers (the bottom of…
An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an international team, led…
A comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its…
Study estimates there may be up to 6 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Earth is the only planet that’s capable of hosting life in…
Updated July 18, 2020: Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) The comet is now an evening object, rising increasingly higher above the northwestern horizon. It is easily…
A sensitive video camera on a summit of the Vosges mountains in France captured these surprising fireworks above a distant horizon on June 26, 2020….
On March 12th, 2020, a space telescope called Swift, detected a burst of radiation from half-way across the Milky Way. Within a week, the newly…
Excess neutrinos and missing gamma rays? Coronae of supermassive black holes may be the hidden sources of mysterious cosmic neutrinos seen on Earth. The origin…
A recent study on ‘pre-supernova’ neutrinos—tiny cosmic particles that are extremely hard to detect—has brought scientists one step closer to understanding what happens to stars…
Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this image shows NGC 7513, a barred spiral galaxy. Located approximately 60 million light-years away, NGC 7513 lies…
Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon; it keeps our planet’s axis of rotation stable, which controls seasons and regulates our climate….
Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from…
An international team of astronomers has created the most detailed map yet of the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares. The unprecedented sensitivity and…
Astronomers created a stunning new image showing stellar fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17. Most stars in the universe, including our Sun, were born in massive…