Vaporization Simulation of Earth Helps Explain the Atmospheres of Super-Earths
In an effort to better understand what astronomers should see when they look at the atmospheres of super-Earths, scientists are using computer simulations to see…
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Data Reveals Swift J1644+57’s QPO Cycle
A newly published study describes the X-ray signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, that was observed the days following the last years discovery of…
3D Models Confirm Supernova’s Role in the Formation of Our Solar System
A soon-to-be published study from scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science provides the first fully three-dimensional models for how a shock wave from a supernova…
Images From ESA’s Mars Express Reveals the Features of Ladon Basin
New images from the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express reveal a variety of features of several impact craters and their surrounding areas on…
European Extremely Large Telescope Project Underway
Officially underway and set to be built at the summit of a mountain in the Atacama desert, the European Extremely Large Telescope will be sensitive…
ESO’s New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1187
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is the most detailed ever taken of spiral galaxy NGC 1187,…
Astronomers Detect X-rays From the Remains of Supernova SN 1957D
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
Scientists Report Details of the Gravity Probe-B Mission
In a series of seven papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement, a NASA/Stanford team reported the astronomical issues involved with the analysis of testing…
Geotail Satellite Still Sending Back Crucial Information After 20 Years of Service
Launched just over twenty years ago, the joint Geotail mission satellite is still operational and sending back crucial information about how aurora form, how energy…
Orbits of a Near-Earth Asteroid and a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
This NASA image of the day shows the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA. The Hustle…
A Connection Between Volatiles in the Subsurface of Mars and the Impact Process
While examining detailed images of Martian impact craters from the HiRISE camera, Western University scientists discovered further evidence for the interaction between subsurface volatiles and…
VLT Reveals That O Stars, Which Drive the Evolution of Galaxies, Don’t Live Alone
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
H.E.S.S. II Telescope Starts Operation and Detects Its Very First Images
With a 28-meter mirror and a mass of almost 600 tons, the H.E.S.S. II telescope is up and running, detecting its very first images of…
Scientists Detected Exoplanetary System With Regularly Aligned Orbits Similar to Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Review, Moving to Preliminary Design Phase
With the hope of bringing explorers to nearby asteroids, Mars, and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our solar system, NASA’s Space Launch…
Trajectory Models of Refractory Particles Help Solve Two Solar System Puzzles
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
Diogenites Provide Clues of the Earliest Days of Our Solar System
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science are focusing on an old type of meteorite called diogenites to gain a better understanding of the earliest…
Newly Discovered Gamma-Ray Pulsar J1838-0537
By employing new optimal algorithms on their ATLAS computer cluster to help go through Fermi data, scientists from the Max Planck Institute discovered the 5,000…
