A “Rippled” Milky Way May Be Much Larger Than Previously Estimated
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a newly published study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reveals that a “rippled” Milky Way maybe 50 percent…
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Survey of Carina Nebula Reveals Details of Star Formation
A newly published study about the Carina Nebula is helping astronomers better understand the processes that may have contributed to the formation of the sun…
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Set to Study Magnetic Reconnection Near Earth
The MMS mission is set to explore the magnetic reconnection at the nose of the magnetosphere, providing the first ever three-dimensional view of this process…
Astronomers Discover Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting the Milky Way
Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once. Astronomers have…
Coronal Mass Ejections Accelerate and Concentrate Nanodust Particles
A team of astronomers has discovered that coronal mass ejections accelerate and concentrate nanodust particles in the interplanetary medium, a conclusion derived from STEREO instruments…
Astronomers Identify a Quadruple Star System, 30 Ari
Using the Robo-AO adaptive optics system and the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system, astronomers have identified a planet in a quadruple star system for only the…
Unusual Form of Cosmic Precipitation Can Affect the Growth and Evolution of Galaxies
New research based on X-ray data from Chandra shows how an unusual form of cosmic precipitation can affect the growth and evolution of galaxies, slowing…
New Research Reveals Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere
New research shows that the heliosphere is dominated by two giant jets of material shooting backwards over the north and south poles of the sun,…
New Technique Analyzes Clouds Around Exoplanets
Research from MIT details a new technique that analyzes data from NASA’s Kepler space observatory to determine the types of clouds on planets that orbit…
Astrophysicists Investigate Where Stars Form in Merging Galaxies
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics simulated galaxy collisions under a wide range of conditions in order to investigate the question of where the…
First Time Solutions Provide New Insight in Black Hole Collisions
In a new study, astrophysicists provide for the first time solutions to decades-old equations that describe conditions as two black holes in a binary system…
Astronomers Discover Ultraluminous Quasar with a 12 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole
A newly published study details the discovery of the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at…
A Possible Solution to the Mystery of the Origin of Matter in the Universe
A new study from UCLA physicists offers a possible solution to the mystery of the origin of matter in the universe. Most of the laws…
Chandra Discovers Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Spiral Galaxy NGC 2276
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered a newly cosmic object that may help provide answers to some long-standing questions about how black holes…
Nova Delphini 2013 Produces a Large Amount of Lithium
Using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS), a team of astronomers observed Nova Delphini 2013 and discovered that the outburst is producing a…
The Formation of a Quadruple Star System
Astronomers have discovered a nearby stellar nursery where quadruplets are being born. More than half of all stars are in multiple systems: binary stars, or…
NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Telescopes Give Shape to Black Hole Winds
Using NASA’s NuSTAR and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescopes astronomers have measured the strength of ultra-fast winds from a supermassive black hole, proving that the winds are…
Dark Matter Influences Supermassive Black Hole Growth
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the ROSAT X-ray satellite’s all-sky survey, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a distinct…