Astronomers Observed Evolved Star Being Devoured
A team of CfA astronomers is reporting that the object they observed using the Pan-STARRS telescope was a supermassive black hole, roughly two million solar…
A team of CfA astronomers is reporting that the object they observed using the Pan-STARRS telescope was a supermassive black hole, roughly two million solar…
In 2011 researchers realized that they could use NASA’s Vector Electric Field Instrument aboard the Air Force’s Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite to detect Schumann…
Using the radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a team of astrophysicists from Penn State have discovered radio emissions from a brown dwarf in the…
If you think your new 14 megapixel camera is powerful, take a look at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,…
According to a new study set to be published this week, rogue planets might not be alone forever. The study details how rogue planets are…
Astrophysicists knew the pulses emitted from the Crab Nebula were powerful, but what they found was 50 to 100 times higher than theorists thought possible….
A newly published study describes the findings of a black hole located 12 million light-years away in galaxy Centaurus A. Although black holes are believed…
It’s hard to imagine planets that zip around at 30 million mph, but it was only a few years ago that astronomers found a “flying…
This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus Group, in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 074886 has been dubbed…
While studying SN 2011fe and using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, researchers were able to provide new insights into the origins of…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers analyze the previously discovered world GJ1214b and helped them prove that it is a waterworld enshrouded by a thick,…
The Crab Nebula (NGC 1952) is easily visible through small telescopes, which has allowed astronomers to observe its growth and evolution, ever since its birth…
New astronomical simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars surrounding the NGC 5907 galaxy, located 50 million light-years away, in the constellation Draco, were…
Researchers are hoping to further unlock the mysteries of planet and star formation and study many more young stars and solar systems by using the…
In extragalactic astronomy, a Lyman-alpha blob (LAB) is a huge concentration of gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line, a spectral line of hydrogen, or more…
Using computer simulations, a team of astronomers found that when galaxies collide and form starbursts, the total number of star clusters decreases. Their research shows…
Recent gamma-ray observations of Tycho’s supernova remnant (SN 1572) by the space-based Fermi-Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System…
When massive stars accumulate more iron than they can hold, they explode in what is called a core-collapse supernova, also known as Type II…