Rocket-Launched Hi-C Camera Captures Detailed Images of the Solar Corona
A team of scientists used a sounding rocket to launch NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, capturing images of the solar corona five times sharper than…
A team of scientists used a sounding rocket to launch NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, capturing images of the solar corona five times sharper than…
Research presented at the 2013 RAS National Astronomy Meeting describes a new quasar microlensing technique that should allow astronomers to better map out the internal…
A new e-MERLIN image of Betelgeuse reveals two hot spots that appear on the sides of the star with temperatures much higher than the average…
Astronomers used the Herschel Space Observatory to observe a bright emission around the star Kappa Coronae Borealis, indicating the presence of a dusty debris disc….
A new proposal using a technique called gravitational microlensing combined with data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope has researchers at The University of Auckland anticipating…
By combining telescope observations with advanced modeling, astronomers have found a rare triple quasar, called QQQ J1519+062. For only the second time in history, a…
A newly published study suggests that super-Earths are surrounded by extended hydrogen-rich envelopes and that they are more like mini-Neptunes than Earth. In the last…
Astronomers from the Royal Astronomical Society suggest that two compact stellar remnants, such as black holes or neutron stars, collided and released a large gamma-ray…
At 4 billion light-years in length, the Large Quasar Group (LQG) is the largest known structure in the universe and is some 1600 times larger…
In two new studies, scientists use data from the Herschel Space Observatory to find a correlation between the presence of massive debris discs and planetary…
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…
A newly published study details the artificial intelligence algorithm a team of astronomers developed to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of…
After a two-year study, a team of astronomers at the University of Portsmouth and LMU University Munich have concluded that the likelihood of the existence…
Using a new unbiased technique to calculate dark matter, a new study from a team of astronomers suggests that there are large amounts of invisible…
Using complex direct N-body simulations, scientists believe they solved the mystery of ultramassive stars of cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula, discovering that the stars…
While studying the brightness of stars in near-infrared light, a team of astronomers discovered several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the…
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
Using data from the WISE satellite, scientists discovered an ultra-cool brown dwarf, known as BD+01 2920B, that is about 35 times more massive than Jupiter…