A Superbubble in Star Cluster NGC 1929
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Max-Planck-ESO telescope, this composite image shows a superbubble in NGC 1929, which…
Astrophysics News
Scientists Use Light From an Exploding Star to Study Distant Galaxy
A recently published study details how scientists used light from an exploding star as a probe to study the gas conditions in the space between…
Sugar Molecules Found in Gas Surrounding Sun-Like Star
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers discovered molecules of a simple form of sugar in the gas surrounding a young binary…
Pair of Eclipsing White Dwarfs Produce Gravitational Waves
Discovered last year in system J0651, two white dwarf stars are so close together that they make a complete orbit in less than 13 minutes…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Transiting Planets Orbiting Two Suns
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The planets are in the Kepler-47 system, which is located…
Rapid Star Formation Observed in the Phoenix Cluster
Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Magellan telescopes in Chile, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and other facilities, a team of astronomers discovered the…
Voyager Spacecraft Poised to Make New Discoveries
Launched roughly 35 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 spacecraft are poised to make new discoveries as scientists eagerly await for signs that…
High-Velocity Galactic Winds Moving at 2,500 Kilometers Per Second
Using optical morphologies from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a team of astronomers found 29 objects with…
Arepo Software Helps Simulate the Birth and Evolution of Galaxies
By using Harvard’s Odyssey high-performance supercomputer and new software called Arepo, a team of scientists developed a new computational approach that can accurately follow the…
The Newly Discovered Phoenix Cluster Is Breaking Cosmic Records
Located about 5.7 billion light years from Earth in the Phoenix constellation, the newly discovered galaxy cluster, officially known as SPT-CLJ2344-4243, has been dubbed the…
Probing the Cosmic Infrared Background
Using the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers probed the cosmic infrared background, finding structural features produced by the…
Examining the Dust Absorption of Active Galactic Nuclei
Using the infrared spectrometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope to examine the dust absorption of active galactic nuclei, astronomers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory found that…
Animated Flight through the Universe & First Public Data Release from BOSS
Enjoy this two-minute flight through the universe animation, which includes close to 400,000 galaxies, and the accompanying first public release of data from the Baryon…
New Measuring Technique Suggests Plenty of Dark Matter Near the Sun
Using a new unbiased technique to calculate dark matter, a new study from a team of astronomers suggests that there are large amounts of invisible…
Ultramassive Stars of Cluster R136 Were Created from the Merger of Lighter Stars
Using complex direct N-body simulations, scientists believe they solved the mystery of ultramassive stars of cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula, discovering that the stars…
Examining the Accuracy of the Spectral Energy Distribution Models
In a new study, a team of astronomers set out to evaluate the accuracy of the spectral energy distribution (SED) models, finding that the models…
Voyager 1 Reports a Rapid Increase in High-Energy Cosmic Ray Particles
On a mission to explore interstellar space, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft showed a rapid increase in the levels of high-energy cosmic ray particles, jumping by…
Binary Star QU Carinae, A Possible Supernova Progenitor
Using sodium gas signatures, which have been recognized as being associated with type Ia supernovae, a team of scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science…