Chandra Observations Reveal Magnetic Fields in Powerful Radio Jets
New observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal that the X-ray emissions from Pictoris A are produced by rapidly moving charged particles in magnetic fields….
New observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal that the X-ray emissions from Pictoris A are produced by rapidly moving charged particles in magnetic fields….
New research from the University of Leicester reveals how large black holes can grow to. Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have found telltale differences between the gaps in the gas and the dust in discs around four young…
Using infrared surveys from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have identified ten new filamentary dark clouds in the Milky Way and are looking for more…
Astronomers from Bonn University and the Max Planck Institute present the Effelsberg-Bonn HI-Survey. Radio astronomers from Bonn University and the Max Planck Institute have surveyed…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final close flyby of the ocean-bearing moon Enceladus on December 19, 2015. A thrilling chapter in the exploration of…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views a newborn star shooting twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Just in…
NASA prepares to launch the FORTIS sounding rocket, which will study far-ultraviolet light from galaxy NGC 1365 to understand how material is flowing in and…
Astronomers hope that by studying the properties of galaxy clusters at different stages in the history of the Universe they can shed light on the…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that the gas cavity in transition disks in four young stars was as much as three…
Using the VERITAS array, astronomers have detected gamma rays from a blazar known as PKS 1441+25. The research shows that the source of the gamma…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers details the atmospheres of ten Jupiter-sized exoplanets and was able to…
Using data from the Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers reveal that the small star called W1906+40 has a giant storm much like Jupiter’s Great…
New Chandra observations reveal a pulsar on the southern edge the Jellyfish Nebula and provide details about the structure and properties of this pulsar. The…
Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Radio Telescope, along with other telescopes at ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, astronomers reveal new insights into solar…
Using precise radio imaging techniques, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have determined the size of the shock around supernova SN 2011dh and estimated…
Using the Event Horizon Telescope, astronomers have measured the magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of Sagittarius A* for the first time. Most people…
New research shows that the majority of missing ordinary matter is found in the form of a very hot gas associated with intergalactic filaments. Matter…