Astronomers Discover the Last of Universe’s Missing Ordinary Matter
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. Ordinary matter, or “baryons,”…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. Ordinary matter, or “baryons,”…
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a…
Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive but the existence of an elusive type of…
Mysterious features seen in light emitted from active galactic nuclei may be due to partial obscuration by dust clouds, according to new study. Many large…
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296….
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the exact source of a peculiar type of faint microwave light emanating from a number of regions across the…
Chandra observations indicate the two brightest stars in Alpha Centauri are not pummeling any orbiting planets with large amounts of X-rays. Alpha Centauri is a…
Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy contain…
Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists’ understanding of the Universe. A study of intense starbursts – events in distant galaxies in…
New research led by the University of Warwick reveals that globular clusters could be up to 4 billion years younger than previously thought. Once thought…
Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy, using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
Dr. Jane Lixin Dai, theoretical astrophysicist and assistant professor, and Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, both from the DARK Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University…
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is about twenty-five thousand light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. At the core of…
A team of astronomers has performed one of the highest resolution observations in astronomical history by observing two intense regions of radiation, 20 kilometers (12…
Based on new observational data, an international team led by ETH astronomers identified at least six candidates for ‘dark galaxies’ — galaxies that have a…
A new study has discovered the first known permanent immigrant to our Solar System. The asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter’s orbit, is the first known…
The K2 Mission, an extension of the immensely successful NASA Kepler mission to search for exoplanets, has discovered nearly one hundred new exoplanets so far….
Using the unparalleled sharpness and ultraviolet observational capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has created the most comprehensive high-resolution…