Using ALMA and VLA to Unveil Astronomical Mysteries
Researchers are hoping to further unlock the mysteries of planet and star formation and study many more young stars and solar systems by using the…
Researchers are hoping to further unlock the mysteries of planet and star formation and study many more young stars and solar systems by using the…
One hundred and seventy years ago, astronomers thought that a series of explosions on the surface of Eta Carinae (η Carinae) were the beginning of…
In extragalactic astronomy, a Lyman-alpha blob (LAB) is a huge concentration of gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line, a spectral line of hydrogen, or more…
Using computer simulations, a team of astronomers found that when galaxies collide and form starbursts, the total number of star clusters decreases. Their research shows…
Recent gamma-ray observations of Tycho’s supernova remnant (SN 1572) by the space-based Fermi-Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System…
When massive stars accumulate more iron than they can hold, they explode in what is called a core-collapse supernova, also known as Type II…
The Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) will allow Italian astrophysicists to measure the frame-dragging effect of general relativity up to an accuracy of 1%. Laser ranging…
These images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope showcase a globular cluster, NGC 6752, a spherical grouping of gravitationally bound celestial bodies that’s over 10…
Researchers at UCLA used a Centurion 28 telescope at the Polaris Observatory Association to discover a small companion galaxy to NGC 4449. Named NGC 4449B,…
Astrophysicist Thomas Tauris from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Argelander Institute for Astronomy in Bonn used computer simulations to explain the…
A research team from Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and another team lead by Michael Rich of UCLA and the Polaris Observer Association has identified…
Astronomers have combined hundreds of images, including ones in the infrared spectrum, to provide the most detailed view of the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery…
Using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft, researchers at UCLA have explained the disappearance of energetic electrons in Earth’s outer radiation belt. In…
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has finally returned with some strong evidence of Martian oceans. Using its MARSIS radar, it detected sediments reminiscent of…
A new study of the X-shaped radio galaxy NGC 326, which will be published on February 20th in Astrophysics Journal, tries to explain their morphology…
The Hubble Telescope unveiled an eerie twin galaxy to the Milky Way today. NGC 1073, a barred spiral galaxy like the Milky Way, is located…
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Larger simulations, including the BigBolshoi and…
The first images and video from NASA’s GRAIL mission of the far side of the moon were captured on January 19, 2012, by the MoonKAM…