Don’t Miss: The Strawberry Supermoon
The Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Supermoon; the Mead, Honey, or Rose Moon; the Flower, Hot, Hoe, or Planting Moon; Vat Purnima; Poson Poya;…
Astronomy
Astrophysicists Predict Gravitational Wave Strength From Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerated masses that propagate as waves at the speed of light outward from their…
Astronomers Discover a Mysterious “Black Widow” Binary – With the Shortest Orbit Yet
When a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses, it may leave behind a neutron star. (Unless the leftover mass is too great, in…
Stellar “Ghost” Discovered: Astronomers May Have Detected a “Dark” Free-Floating Black Hole
Gravitational microlensing turns up black hole candidate, one of 200 million in the galaxy. When massive stars come to the end of their lives and…
The Chemistry of the Sun: Resolving a Decade-Long Controversy About the Composition of Our Star
New calculations of Solar spectrum resolve decade-long controversy about the composition of our star. Although our sun is far closer than any other star in…
Jupiter Discovered To Be Inhomogeneous – Metallicity Reveals New Clues About Planet’s Origin
New research finds that Jupiter’s gaseous envelope doesn’t have a homogeneous distribution and its metallicity reveals clues about its origin. An international team of astronomers…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Repeating Bursts of Radio Waves From Outer Space
In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few…
See Galaxies From the Last 10 Billion Years: Hubble Captures Largest Near-Infrared Image To Find Universe’s Rarest Galaxies
There is a patch of the sky known as the COSMOS field, a region rich with galaxies, that was chosen for the Cosmic Evolution Survey…
Astrophysicists Create “Time Machine” Simulations To Observe the Lifecycle of Ancestor Galaxy Cities
Many processes in astrophysics take a very long time, making their evolution tricky to study. For example, a star like our sun has a lifespan…
Don’t Miss: A Planetary Breakup, Hercules Star Cluster, and the Harp Constellation
What’s Up for June? A planetary breakup, prime viewing for a well-known star cluster, and the constellation Lyra. Skywatching highlights for June 2022 include the…
Hubble Investigates a Mysterious Globular Cluster in Search of Clues
Like a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been used to peer into an astronomical mystery in search…
Counting Galaxies To Solve a Cosmological Puzzle: Putting the Theory of Special Relativity Into Practice
The theory of relativity was developed by Albert Einstein in the early 1900s due to the inability of classical physics to explain certain observations. It…
High Contrast Imaging Reveals Unknown Structure in Galaxy
Astronomers have just discovered an unknown structure in a galaxy that had been hidden in the “shadows.” They accomplished this by extending the dynamic range…
Coming Soon: First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope
The first full-color images and other data, coming July 12, 2022, will showcase Webb’s capabilities and kick off its science mission. NASA has announced that…
The Sun Is Spinning Round Again: Solving Part of the “Solar Problem”
An international team of astronomers has succeeded in developing a model to solve part of the “solar problem.” All was wrong with the Sun! A…
Killer Asteroids Are Lurking Around Us – A New Cloud-Based Tool Can Help Spot Them
Cloud-Based Astrodynamics Platform To Discover and Track Asteroids Discovering and tracking asteroids is critical for planetary defense against killer asteroid impacts. The detailed astronomical data…
5 Surprising Facts About the Planet Venus
How much do you know about the planet Venus? Venus resembles the planet earth so much they’re called sister planets because of similarity of size…
New Discovery Reveals Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors
Observations from Gemini Observatory and other telescopes reveal that excess haze on Uranus makes it paler than Neptune. Astronomers may now understand why the similar…
