Astronomers Observe a Long-Hypothesized Mechanism for Coronal Heating
A team of astronomers has observed a long-hypothesized mechanism for coronal heating in which magnetic waves are converted into heat energy. Modern telescopes and satellites…
A team of astronomers has observed a long-hypothesized mechanism for coronal heating in which magnetic waves are converted into heat energy. Modern telescopes and satellites…
Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers reveal the ghostly remnants of galaxy interactions in a nearby galaxy group. Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope’s…
Using weak gravitational lensing the newly developed Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru telescope has revealed nine large concentrations of dark matter, each the mass of…
Using the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS), a team of astronomers observed Nova Delphini 2013 and discovered that the outburst is producing a…
Astronomers used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to identify spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around binary protostars, revealing for the first…
In a newly published study, scientists reveal that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in…
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected chemical change in the transition zone between the infalling envelope and the gas disk around young protostar L1527. The international…
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…
By masking the bright light from a central star, HiCIAO can detect the detailed features of a star’s disk and the objects that it contains,…
An international team of astronomers discovered a giant gap inside PDS 70’s protoplanetary disk, which may have resulted from the birth of multiple planets. A…
Using the NRO 45m Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory, scientists discovered a “pigtail” molecular cloud, located in the Galactic center, approximately 30,000 light-years away from…
Using radio telescopes, a team of scientists at Keio University has discovered several intermediate-mass black hole candidates, which are considered to be the “seeds” that…