Stellar Heavy Metals Can Map Evolution of the Milky Way and Other Galaxies
Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and giant stars. New observations based on this catalog will help…
Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and giant stars. New observations based on this catalog will help…
LSU astronomy researchers estimate the peak of brightness and explosion of luminous star brighter than any other in the Milky Way Galaxy. Currently, the faint…
The NEID instrument will help astronomers determine the density of distant planets, which can reveal whether the planet is rocky, like Earth, or mostly gaseous,…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result…
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous…
For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast radio bursts — intense, unexplained cosmic flashes of energy,…
ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to…
NASA’s Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy: Majestic Spiral Has Slowly Grown Over Billions of Years Galaxies are like snowflakes. Though the universe contains innumerable galaxies flung…
Movie Dissects the Nebula’s Intricate Nested Structure In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers witnessed the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the…
Roughly half of the newly-discovered black holes are not at the centers of their galaxies. Astronomers seeking to learn about the mechanisms that formed massive…
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are accreting material. These AGN emit jets of charged particles that…
Chaos Leads Scientists to New Understanding of Centuries’-Old Quandary It’s been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming “For…
Astronomers discover the most energetic gamma-ray burst ever witnessed. Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic phenomenon known to humankind. Although short-lived, they outshine stars and…
NASA 2020 Preparing Artemis 1 for the Moon Space Launch System: Test Firing Our Powerful Rocket Planning Commercial Missions to the Moon Viper: Prepping a…
A team of astronomers at the National Center for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune, India have discovered a mysterious ring of hydrogen gas around a…
A study by Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) provides important information on its composition and on its interaction with luminous matter. They are…
A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of massive galaxies…
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Here are five things to know! A black hole is a single point…