Super-Earth Found Near the Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf
A new super-Earth planet was found 37 light years from Earth. Only 37 light-years from Earth, a super-Earth planet has been discovered close to a…
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Cosmic Explosions: New Way To Measure the Distant Universe
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…
Astronomers Discover Infant Planet – One of the Youngest Exoplanets Ever Observed
One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by University of…
Mysterious “Lonely Cloud” Bigger Than Milky Way Found in a Galaxy “No-Man’s Land”
A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)…
Earliest Gigantic Black Hole Storm Ever Discovered – Supermassive Black Hole a Telltale Sign About Very Early History of the Universe
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole 13.1 billion years ago. This is…
“Farfarout” – Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Planetoid
A team, including an astronomer from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from…
All Dark Matter in the Universe Could Be Primordial Black Holes – Formed From the Collapse of Baby Universes Soon After the Big Bang
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of…
Next Target Asteroid for Hayabusa2 Photographed by Subaru Telescope
On December 10, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2’s extended mission. The positional data…
AI and Photonics Decipher the “Twinkle” of Stars to Make It Easier to Find “New Earths”
Australian Scientists’ Invention Will Decipher the ‘Twinkle’ of Stars Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of…
Evolved Binary Star System Wolf-Rayet 112: Unraveling a Spiral Stream of Dusty Embers From a Massive Stellar Forge
With almost two decades of mid-infrared (IR) imaging from the largest observatories around the world including the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers was able…
Cosmic Heavyweights Face Off in Rare Encounters: Three Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Maunakea Observatories Discover Three Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes A cosmic dance between two merging galaxies, each one containing a supermassive black hole that’s…
Artificial Intelligence Identifies 80,000 Spiral Galaxies – Promises More Astronomical Discoveries in the Future
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high…
Surprisingly Young Galaxy – Discovered by AI – Breaks Low-Oxygen Record
Rare, Extremely Metal-Poor Nearby Galaxy Discovered With Machine Learning Astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories – Subaru Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory – combined with…
Surprisingly Recent Galaxy Discovered Using Machine Learning – May Be the Last Generation Galaxy in the Long Cosmic History
Breaking the lowest oxygen abundance record. New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have…
New Spectrograph on Subaru Telescope Shows “Earth-Like” TRAPPIST-1 Planetary Orbits Not Misaligned
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are not significantly misaligned with the rotation of the star….
20 New Moons Discovered Orbiting Saturn – You Can Help Name Them [Video]
Move over Jupiter; Saturn is the new moon king. A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This…
Massive Filaments Connect Galaxies and Fuel the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Piolneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
Record Breaking Observations Link Dark Matter to Galaxy Formation
An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion…
