Graduate Student’s BADASS Code Has Astronomical Benefits
An astro-statistics course University of California, Riverside, graduate student Remington O. Sexton took three years ago taught him techniques that led him to develop free,…
Astrophysics
NASA Selects 4 Astrophysics Missions to Study Universe’s Secrets
NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers. Through small satellites and scientific balloons, these selections…
Astronomers Agree on Universe’s Birthday – 13.77 Billion Years Old
From an observatory high above Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe. Their observations, plus a…
Chinese Astronomers Discover 591 High Velocity Stars – 43 of Them Can Even Escape From the Galaxy
A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars from the Large…
Supermassive Black Hole’s Dust Ring May Be Casting Shadows From Heart of a Galaxy
Some of the most stunning views of our sky occur at sunset, when sunlight pierces the clouds, creating a mixture of bright and dark rays…
How Stars Form in Nearby Galaxies
How stars form in galaxies remains a major open question. Robert Feldmann sheds new light on this topic with the help of a data-driven re-analysis…
Quasars Rip Across Galaxies Like Tsunamis – The Most Energetic Outflows Ever Witnessed in the Universe
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. They…
“Unprecedented” – Unusual Planetary Nebula Fades Mere Decades After It Arrived
Stars are rather patient. They can live for billions of years, and they typically make slow transitions — sometimes over many millions of years —…
Scientists Peer Into the 3D Structure of the Milky Way and Observe Star-Forming Processes in Unprecedented Detail
Survey of the sky pushes the boundaries of what we know about the structure of our galaxy. Scientists from Cardiff University have helped produce a…
Can White Dwarf Stars Help Solve the Cosmological Lithium Problem?
Exploring new method for measuring galactic evolution of lithium. For the first time, hard-to-track lithium has been identified and measured in the atmosphere of burned…
The Ancient Moon’s Missing Magnetism
Simulations rule out plasmas caused by meteoroid impacts as the source of lunar magnetism, supporting the proposal that the ancient moon generated a core dynamo….
All Dark Matter in the Universe Could Be Primordial Black Holes – Formed From the Collapse of Baby Universes Soon After the Big Bang
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of…
Clues to Missing Components of the Universe From Ripples in Space-Time
University of Chicago scientist lays out how LIGO gravitational waves could be scrambled, yielding information. There’s something a little off about our theory of…
MIT Professor and Astrophysicist Sara Seager Appointed Officer to the Order of Canada
Pioneer in exoplanet research helped transform the burgeoning field into one of the fastest-growing and most exciting in space science. MIT’s Class of 1941 Professor…
Astrophysicists Discover Unfathomably Large Intergalactic Gas Filament
Study confirms models on the evolution of our universe. More than half of the matter in our universe has so far remained hidden from us….
Looking for Axion Dark Matter Particles Near Neutron Stars With Radio Telescopes
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature…
AB Aur: A Rosetta Stone for Planet Formation
Planets are formed from the disk of gas and dust around a star, but the mechanisms for doing so are imperfectly understood. Gas is the…
Astrophysicists Unveil the Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
UNLV astrophysicist Bing Zhang contributes to understanding the physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts in three papers published in Nature. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs…