Astronomers Map Vigorous Atmospheric Motion in the Red Supergiant Star Antares
A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the…
A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the…
Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers provide the most detailed study yet of the Pleiades star cluster. The…
Exploding stars carry cloak of dense material that puzzles astronomers. A team of astronomers has detected the first X-rays from what appears to be a…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have concluded from a systematic study of very young cores that most embryonic stars form in multiple systems,…
A submillimeter study of a different massive dusty galaxy in the early universe uses carbon monoxide gas to characterize the interstellar medium and determine the…
Physicists have now come up with a new theory on how dark matter may have been formed, proposing an alternative to the WIMP paradigm. Only…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examines six dense cores in a nearby star formation region, revealing that magnetic effects are primarily important…
Scientists developed a technique to identify ancient asteroid families, revealing the oldest known asteroid family in the inner region of the main asteroid belt. Southwest…
New results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) reveal the most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe, and support the view that…
Below is a short list of the major accomplishments to date of NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager 1 and 2 Spacecraft during their 40 years of exploration….
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected massive young stars forming in the outer part of the Scutum-Centarus Arm (OSC), the outermost portions…
Using ESA’s Gaia satellite, a team of astronomers has discovered a “heavy metal” supernova that challenges current ideas of how and where such super-charged supernovas…
Astronomers may now be able to explain why the Sun’s magnetic field reverses every eleven years. New research explains how the duration of the magnetic…
Astronomers have compared the Hubble image of Abell 2744 to simulations of dark matter lensing and found excellent agreement, indicating that current models of dark…
The international SpARCS collaboration has made the best measurement yet of the amount of fuel available to form stars in clusters of galaxies located in…
Scientists are capitalizing on a direct connection between the largest cosmic structures and the smallest known objects to use the universe as a “cosmological collider.”…
NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69….
New research reveals that the center of our Milky Way contains a “trap” that concentrates some of the highest-energy cosmic rays. A combined analysis of…