Newly Discovered White Dwarf Star Possibly Coldest, Dimmest Ever Detected
Using the Green Bank Telescope, Very Long Baseline Array and other observatories, astronomers have identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. A…
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Titan’s Building Blocks Formed Early in the Solar System’s History and Might Pre-Date Saturn
A newly published study reveals evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the…
Scientists Shed New Light on Black Hole Development
Using a large array of satellites and space observatories, astronomers discovered that winds blowing from a supermassive black hole in NGC 5548 work to obscure…
Spitzer Measures an Asteroid Candidate for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission
Using infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the size of an asteroid candidate (near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD) for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect…
Hubble Reveals the Role of Dwarf Galaxies in the Star Formation History of the Universe
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers take a significant step forward in understanding how dwarf galaxies contributed to the star population in our…
Astronomers Discover Water-Building Molecule in Planetary Nebulas
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have discovered a water-building molecule in three planetary nebulas. Using ESA’s Herschel Space Oobservatory,…
Herschel Space Observatory Reveals Massive Cold Clumps in NGC 7538
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have identified 13 massive, dense clumps where colossal stars could form. The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reveals Treasure Trove of “Red Nugget” Galaxies
At this years the meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, astronomers revealed a treasure trove of “red nugget” galaxies discovered by combing through the Sloan…
ALMA Maps Environment around Dark Gamma-Ray Bursts for the First Time
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have directly mapped out the molecular gas and dust in the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts for the…
New Research Pokes Holes in the Current Understanding of Galaxy Formation
A new study led by Marcel Pawlowski at Case Western Reserve University pokes holes in the current understanding of galaxy formation and questions the accepted…
New Herschel Image Reveals Trans-Neptunian Objects
This newly released image reveals a sample of the 132 trans-Neptunian objects observed by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132…
How Solar Wind Breaks Through Earth’s Magnetic Field
A new study uses data from the four European Space Agency satellites in the Cluster mission to reveal how solar wind breaks through the Earth’s…
Exoplanets Can Be Divided Into Three Groups: Terrestrials, Gas Giants, and Mid-Sized Gas Dwarfs
A newly published study form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics follows up on Kepler discoveries, revealing that exoplanets can be divided into three groups: terrestrials,…
New Research Reveals Harsh Space Weather May Doom Potential Life on Red-Dwarf Planets
New research presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society reveals that harsh space weather may strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting…
Theoretical Physicists Reveal the Turbulent Nature of Black Holes
A new study from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics reveals the turbulent nature of black holes, showing that gravitational fields around black holes might…
Astronomers Discover a Thorne-Zytkow Object – A Red Supergiant and Neutron Star Hybrid
A team of astronomers has discovered the first Thorne-Żytkow object, a hybrid star formed by the interaction of a red supergiant and a neutron star…
New Study Measures the Strength of Magnetic Fields Near Black Holes
New research from the Berkeley Lab systematically measures the strength of magnetic fields near black holes for the first time, revealing that the measured magnetic…
Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c Will Be Swallowed by Their Star
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that planets Kepler-56b and Kepler-56c will be swallowed by their star, providing a glimpse into the future…
