Chandra Reveals the Location of Elements in the Remains of Cas A
A new Chandra image shows the location of several elements produced by the explosion of a massive star. Supernova remnants and the elements they produce…
A new Chandra image shows the location of several elements produced by the explosion of a massive star. Supernova remnants and the elements they produce…
When scientists recorded a rippling in space-time, followed within two seconds by an associated burst of light observed by dozens of telescopes around the globe,…
Researchers of the Group “Fuentes de Alta Energía de la Galaxia” of the UJA, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Barcelona and its…
Astronomers have come up with a new and improved method for measuring the masses of millions of solitary stars, especially those with planetary systems. Getting…
University of Canterbury astrophysicist Dr. Simone Scaringi has made an unexpected and exciting new discovery related to the way white dwarfs grow in space. The…
The search for life beyond Earth is riding a surge of creativity and innovation. Following a gold rush of exoplanet discovery over the past two…
Astronomers have used two Australian radio telescopes and several optical telescopes to study complex mechanisms that are fuelling jets of material blasting away from a…
Astronomers have used ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory to solve a decades-old mystery about the origin of powerful cool gas winds in the hot environs of…
A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaii, Israel, and France has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in our extended…
Astronomers have concluded from the study of NGC 1600 and similar galaxies that the relative populations of stars of different masses in a cluster of…
Scientists measure the magnetic field of the black hole binary V404 Cygni, revealing a significantly weaker magnetic field than previously thought. Black holes are famous…
A team of astronomers, including two from MIT, has detected the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed. The black hole sits in the center…
A whole lot of zig-zagging: Perhaps that is what happens when the universe’s mysterious dark matter particles hit the Earth. SDU researchers can now show…
Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the visible matter in the universe, including the sun, the stars,…
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra…
Nothing can emerge from a black hole. Yet, in nature, we find ultra-powerful jets of energy that shoot out from the immediate vicinities of growing…
A study led by a researcher at the IAC and published today in Nature Astronomy points to the role of the magnetic field as responsible…
“I believe the Big Bang never happened,” said Juliano César Silva Neves, a physicist at the University of Campinas’s Mathematics, Statistics & Scientific Computation Institute…