Cosmic Clockwork: The Outer Space Origin of Ice Age Cycles
A team of researchers, including climatologists and an astronomer, has utilized an enhanced computer model to recreate the ice age cycles that occurred between 1.6…
A team of researchers, including climatologists and an astronomer, has utilized an enhanced computer model to recreate the ice age cycles that occurred between 1.6…
Researchers discovered an unusual gas cloud called the “Tadpole” potentially orbiting a massive black hole 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, and plan to…
Neutron star mergers have been confirmed to synthesize rare Earth elements. For the first time, a group of scientists has identified rare earth elements produced…
A day at the beach for life on other planets. According to new simulations, fully Earth-like exoplanets with oceans and continents, as well as beaches…
Using star-shattering explosions to measure the universe. An multinational team of 23 scientists, led by Maria Dainotti, Assistant Professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of…
The world’s first 3D simulation simultaneously considering dust motion and growth in a disk around a young star has shown that large dust from the…
An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for the expansion of the Universe best match…
Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous…
Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster,…
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it…
Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have analyzed the paths of two objects heading out of the Solar System forever and determined…
The first dataset from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Plan (HSC-SSP) can be seen easily with the “HSC Viewer” on your PC or tablet. The…
Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high-speed jets…
Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers create the most-extensive map of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe. Scientists have used the Suprime-Cam on the Subaru…
Using the Nobeyama Radio Telescope, a team of astronomers has detected signs of an invisible black hole with a mass of 100 thousand times the…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to study active supermassive black holes in merging galaxies, revealing that local physical conditions near SMBHs rather than general properties…
An international team of astronomers has observed an infrared dark cloud surrounding a baby star that is about ten times larger than those found around…
New Subaru Telescope observations of super-Earth GJ 1214 b show that the exoplanet is likely to have a water-rich atmosphere. A Japanese research team of…