The Aurora’s Very High Altitude Booster Creates Dazzling Displays
Electrons arriving from the Sun are propelled by electrical energy generated as high as 30,000 kilometers above Earth, ultimately creating the dazzling displays of the…
Astrophysics
New Model Raises Doubt About the Composition of 70% of Our Universe – Dark Energy May Simply Not Exist!
Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for…
CHiPS: MIT Astronomers Discover New Galaxy Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say. MIT astronomers have discovered new and unusual galactic neighborhoods that previous studies…
Mysterious Interstellar Visitor May Be the Most Pristine Comet Ever Found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most…
Feared Apophis Impact Ruled Out – Asteroid Will Pass Close Enough to Earth to See With Naked Eye
New observations of asteroid Apophis – thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068 – rule out any chance of impact for…
Early Universe Explosion Reveals Elusive “Goldilocks” Black Hole
Black Hole Seeds Key to Galaxies Behemoths A new black hole breaks the record — not for being the smallest or the biggest — but…
Radioactive Molecules May Help Solve Cosmic Mystery of Missing Antimatter
Stars, galaxies, and everything in the universe, including our own bodies, are comprised of so-called regular matter. Regular matter includes atoms and molecules, which are…
The Very First Structures in the Universe: Astrophysicists Simulate Microscopic Clusters From the Big Bang
The very first moments of the Universe can be reconstructed mathematically even though they cannot be observed directly. Physicists from the Universities of Göttingen and…
Launch of Europe’s Largest Astronomy Network: OPTICON-RadioNet PILOT
Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength domain and the other in the radio-wave domain….
Incredibly Powerful 900+ Mph Winds in Jupiter’s Atmosphere Measured for the First Time
Jovian jet streams above the cloud tops measured using the aftermath of comet collision. Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute…
Astronomers’ Polarized Image Shows Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light. MIT Haystack Observatory is one of the 13 stakeholder institutions that constitute the Event…
NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe From Asteroid Apophis Impact for at Least 100 Years
The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. After its…
“Hoinga” Surprise – Debris of Stellar Explosion Found at Unusual Location
eROSITA space telescope finds largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-rays. In the first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG, astronomers at…
Tantalizing Evidence: Is the Nearest Star Cluster to the Sun Being Destroyed?
Data from ESA’s Gaia star mapping satellite have revealed tantalizing evidence that the nearest star cluster to the Sun is being disrupted by the gravitational…
Ancient Light From the Big Bang Illuminates Matter That Fuels Galaxy Formation
Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has begun to…
A Monumentally Powerful Particle Accelerator Discovered in the Cygnus Cocoon
At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer sky, beats a source of high-energy cosmic ray particles: the Cygnus…
Powerful Magnetic Fields Surrounding Black Hole Are Strong Enough to Resist Gravity
Wits University astrophysicists are the only two scientists on African continent that contributed to the study. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, a multinational team…
Event Horizon Telescope Images Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object…