European Space Agency to Develop Gravitational Wave Space Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for its third large-class mission in the agency’s Cosmic Vision science program….
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Astronomers Discover Dead Disk Galaxy, Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making…
ALMA Discovers a Weak and Wildly Disorganized Magnetic Field Near a Protostar
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers has discovered a surprisingly weak and wildly disorganized magnetic field very near a newly…
Astronomers Provide New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs
Using a radio survey of a giant molecular cloud filled with recently formed stars and a mathematical model that can explain the observations, astronomers reveal…
Researchers Simulate the Conditions Around Black Holes Using a Specially Designed Water Bath
By successfully simulated the conditions around black holes using a specially designed water bath, a team of astronomers has made a significant leap forward in…
SOFIA Investigates Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous…
Chandra Reveals Extended Hard X-ray Emission from a Galactic Nucleus
Using Chandra, a team of astronomers has found that the nuclear region emitting hard X-rays in galaxy ESO 428-G014 is more than ten times larger…
Researchers Explain the Formation of Trappist-1 and Other Compact Systems
(Article translated to English) Astronomers from the University of Amsterdam have developed a model to explain the formation of planetary system Trappist-1 and other compact…
Astronomers Discover Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-Like Stars
Using ALMA, astronomers have found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life – around Sun-like stars at a very early stage…
Chandra Views the Volatile Stellar Relationship of the R Aquarii System
Chandra has observed the R Aquarii system many times over the last 17 years, helping astronomers better understand how this volatile stellar pair interacts with…
Nearby White Dwarf Star Helps Confirm Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
A Nearby white dwarf star helps confirm Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and the history and evolution of galaxies such as our own. Albert Einstein…
New Research Supports the Idea That We Live in a Void
New research firms up the idea that we exist in one of the voids in the structure of the cosmos and helps ease the apparent…
Astronomers Study Correlation Between Galaxy Stellar Mass and Star Formation Rate
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the correlation between a galaxy’s stellar mass and star formation rate is a tight one….
LIGO Detects Merging Ripples in Space and Time
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in…
Chandra Reveals That Early Black Holes May Have Grown in Fits and Spurts
By comparing theoretical models to Chandra surveys and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have found evidence that the very earliest supermassive black holes in…
Astronomers Discover Periodic Eclipses of the Young Star PDS 110
An international team of astronomers show that a giant gas planet – up to 50x the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust…
Astronomers Put Basic Principle of Black Holes to the Test
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
NASA NICER Mission Set to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. The…