Hitomi Mission Views the Cosmic “Recipe” of the Perseus Cluster
Astronomers provide new insights into the stellar explosions that formed most of these elements in the Perseus galaxy cluster. Before its brief mission ended unexpectedly…
Astronomers provide new insights into the stellar explosions that formed most of these elements in the Perseus galaxy cluster. Before its brief mission ended unexpectedly…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered the never-before-seen close encounter between two astoundingly bright and spectacularly massive galaxies in the early universe. These…
A New survey of fast-spinning pulsar stars offers a better estimate of when astronomers will first detect gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers…
Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking bubble of ionized gas. Measuring more than 300,000 light-years across, three times the diameter of the Milky Way, this colorful…
Scientists reveal that laser-produced plasma can provide insight into bursts of subatomic particles that occur in deep space. Such findings could help scientists understand cosmic…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers from Kyoto University help explain aluminum oxide enrichment around AGB stars. Stars like our Sun eject large…
A group of astronomers in Brazilian universities and research institutions observed a star demoted to white dwarf status because of companion. A group of Brazilian…
For the first time, astronomers have observed details on the surface of an aging star with the same mass as the Sun. The new ALMA…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of more than fifty years. Supernovae, the explosions of…
Black holes make for a great space mystery. They’re so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole once it gets close…
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Among eight clouds identified…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has discovered dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow…
The European Space Agency and NASA mission SOHO — short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — got a visit from an old friend this week…
Astronomers observe a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves detected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. On August 17, the Laser Interferometry…
Astronomers reveal that a small, recently discovered asteroid — or perhaps a comet — has entered our solar system from somewhere else in our galaxy….
Researchers, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets — comets outside our solar system — orbiting a faint star…
Astronomers recently discovered that spots on the surface of supergiant star Zeta Puppis are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind. Massive stars are…
Using the Very Long Baseline Array, astronomers achieve record measurement for an improved picture of the Milky Way. Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for…