Astronomers Observe Trio of Young Galaxies Merging Near ‘Cosmic Dawn’
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have discovered a trio of young galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of…
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Smith Cloud Heading Toward the Milky Way at More Than 150 Miles Per Second
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers discovered a magnetic field deep in…
ALMA Views the Coldest Place in the Universe: The Boomerang Nebula
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers view the coldest known object in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. At a cosmologically crisp one degree…
Astronomers Discover a Neutron Star That has the Ability to Transform
A team of scientists has discovered that a neutron star, dubbed IGR J18245-2452, has the ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray…
Black Hole Powered Jets Push Material Out of Galaxy
Using data from an intercontinental combination of radio telescopes, astronomers have been able to see massive clumps of cold gas being pushed away from the…
Astronomers View a Rare Multiple Quasar Imaging Event Caused by a Gas Cloud
Scientists view a rare multiple quasar imaging event caused by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in the Milky Way Galaxy. For the…
New Distance Measurement of SS Cygni Resolves Major Astronomical Mystery
Using VLBA and the European VLBI Network, astronomers were able to accurately measure the distance to double-star system SS Cygni, resolving a major problem in…
Astronomers Discover Hydrogen Clouds Between Nearby Galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum
Using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers detected a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum…
VLA Identifies Discrete Sources of Radio Waves Coming From Distant Galaxies
Using data from the Very Large Array, astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming…
Observations of a Pulsar and Its White Dwarf Companion Back General Theory of Relativity
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once every two and a half hours, show that the binary’s…
Signs of Star Formation Near Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center
Using ALMA, scientists have detected signs of star formation near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers using the…
Researchers Discover an Important Pair of Prebiotic Molecules in Interstellar Space
Scientists using the Green Bank Telescope have discovered a pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space, suggesting that some basic chemicals needed for life may…
Massive Outburst in Spiral Galaxy NGC 660 Surprises Astronomers
While using the 305-meter William E. Gordon Telescope at Arecibo, researchers discovered an outburst in spiral galaxy NGC 660 that was ten times brighter than…
Star Formation in the Universe Has Decreased Drastically
In a new study, an international team of scientists established that the rate of star formation in the Universe is now only 1/30th of what…
Using ALMA and VLA to Unveil Astronomical Mysteries
Researchers are hoping to further unlock the mysteries of planet and star formation and study many more young stars and solar systems by using the…
