Uncovering Secrets of the Early Universe: Astronomers Capture Radio Signal From Distant Galaxy
Probing galaxies at much greater distances from Earth may now be within reach. How do stars form in distant galaxies? Astronomers have long been trying…
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Webb Space Telescope Reveals Dusty Leftovers of Planet Formation Like Never Seen Before
Results will aid in future searches for giant planets in wide orbits Not so very far away in cosmic terms, the dusty leftovers of planet…
A New Frontier: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Confirms Existence of Earth-Sized Rocky Exoplanet!
The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days. Researchers using NASA’s James…
Birth of a “Masquerading Monster” – Formation of Massive Star Caught in the Act
Formation of Massive Star Caught in the Act with Magnetic Field Mapping The stellar nursery where the action is taking place, called BYF 73, is…
Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe: Astronomers Discover an Enigmatic Cosmic Explosion
Gamma-ray bursts are the most intense explosions in the universe and are typically caused by the collapse of stars or the collision of compact stellar…
Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Researchers Use High-Powered Lasers to Study Magnetic Reconnection
Scientists use powerful laser beams to create miniature solar flares in order to study the process of magnetic reconnection. Scientists employed twelve high-powered laser beams…
Hubble Spots an Astronomical Intruder in a Distant Galaxy
A host of astronomical objects throng this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Background galaxies ranging from stately spirals to fuzzy ellipticals are strewn across…
Black Hole Violently Tearing Apart a Star Unleashes Rare Luminous Jet of Matter
Astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology have played an important role in the discovery of a rare luminous jet of matter traveling close to…
Astronomers Find the Most Distant Stars in Milky Way’s Halo – Over 1,000,000 Light Years Away
A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years…
Black Hole’s Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Twists Unlucky Star Into Donut Shape
A Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Swallows Unlucky Bypassing Star Black holes have such a voracious gravitational pull that they even swallow light. This makes them hungry…
Baby Star “Burps” Tell Tales of Surprisingly Frantic Feeding – “It’s Literally the Process of Star Creation in Real-Time”
The youngest stars often shine in bright bursts as they consume material from surrounding disks. Newborn stars “feed” at a furious rate and grow through…
Astronomers Have Discovered Web-Like Plasma Structures on the Sun
The researchers observed long, web-like structures that eject particles from the Sun into space. A group of researchers from Southwest Research Institute, NASA, and the…
“Something We Had Never Seen Before” – Unusual Cosmic Explosion Blasts Hole in Established Science
The NASA Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, whose Mission Operations Center is located at Penn State University, discovered a blast of high-energy light from a galaxy…
Superheavy Neutron Stars Revealed by NASA Observations of Powerful Cosmic Explosions
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star…
NASA Planet Hunter Discovers Second Habitable, Earth-Size World in TOI 700 System
The newly discovered planet and its Earth-size sibling are both in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially exist on their surfaces. Using data…
The Most Extraordinary Example Yet – Tiny, Hidden Galaxy Provides a Portal Into the Distant Past
Astronomers have discovered a nearby galaxy that is similar to galaxies in the distant, early universe by looking past the bright light of a foreground…
Supermassive Black Holes en Route to Cataclysmic Collision: Doomed Pair Closer Than Ever Observed
New observations and analysis reveal two Goliath black holes just 750 light-years apart and closing, as they circle each other in the aftermath of a…
Harvard Astronomers Have Revealed the True Shape of the Milky Way’s Halo of Stars
A recent study has unveiled the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy, known as the stellar halo….
