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What happens when one galaxy shoots a bigger galaxy right through the heart? Like a rock thrown into a pond, the smashup creates a splash-up of starry ripples. At least that’s what happened to the Bullseye galaxy, which is the...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Universe Today
The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion stars multiple times. It created a massive 3D map of the Milky Way that will pay scientific dividends for...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Universe Today
At first glance the large scale structure of the Universe may seem to be a swarming mass of unconnected galaxies. Yet somehow, they are! The ‘cosmic web’ is the largest scale structure of the Universe and consists of vast networks of...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Universe Today
Revelations from the past can seem quaint once we’ve been living with them for a generation or two. That’s true of the realization in the past that spawned SETI: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Humanity realized...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's orbit in 2030 to take close-up images of the...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the most massive planets known to orbit a low-mass star. Gaia-4b is also the first planet detected by the European...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to sense the gravitational tug or 'wobble'...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot through its heart. Astronomers using...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an "arrow"—a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy—shot through its heart. Astronomers using Hubble...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Universe Today
Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer of regolith on a world such as Mars could give access to a world still extant with life, whereas, on the Moon, it...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disk that is surrounded by jets and a disk wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Universe Today
Quasars are the actively feeding supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies and can contain millions or even billions of times the mass of the Sun. It's believed they're the source of some of the highest energy cosmic rays...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
We can't help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily affairs. In 1984, our wistful quest took...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny part of the Milky Way; it is one of countless galaxies in the universe. These immense systems are the...Tuesday, February 4, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Astronomers from Turkey and Japan have performed optical observations of a recently discovered nearby supernova remnant known as G206.7+5.9. Results of their observations, published Jan. 28 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide more...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Universe Today
This Hubble image shows a supernova named SN 2022aajn in a distant galaxy about 600 million light-years away with the unwieldy name of WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. However, the obtuse yet scientifically descriptive names aren’t...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Universe Today
It seems everyone is talking about the Moon and everyone wants to get their foot in the door with the renewed passion for lunar exploration. ESA too have jumped into the lunar landing game having just signed a contract with Thales Alenia...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Universe Today
We can’t help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the Universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily affairs. In 1984, our wistful quest...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Universe Today
When a star like the Sun dies, it puffs away its outer layers, leaving behind its glowing core. Without fusion to keep it heated, the white dwarf slowly cools down over billions of years. Astronomers have discovered that 6% of massive...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the cosmos like never before.Monday, February 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network's (DSN) Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow,...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Hubble captured this image roughly two months after a supernova named SN...Monday, February 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several potential examples of technological activity ("technosignatures") have been considered.Monday, February 3, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations of a brown dwarf known as HD 206893 B. Results of the observational campaign, presented Jan. 23 on the arXiv...Sunday, February 2, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a...Friday, January 31, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries.Friday, January 31, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive search for an answer to a centuries-old question: are we alone in the universe?Thursday, January 30, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility just got easier, thanks to the work of scientists at the University of California, Riverside.Thursday, January 30, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts originate from either the merger of two neutron stars or the collapse of a massive star.Thursday, January 30, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Detecting dark matter particles and understanding their underlying physics is a long-standing research goal for many researchers worldwide. Dark matter searches have been aimed at detecting different possible signals that could be...Thursday, January 30, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Apache Point Observatory (APO), an international team of astronomers has detected 19 pulsation modes in an ultra-massive white dwarf known as WD J0135+5722. The discovery, presented on the...Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
New research has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe's evolutionary history and found hints that it may be less clumpy at certain points than previously thought. Their findings suggest that the universe may...Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a significant impact on the interpretation of the abundance of gamma rays in the universe.Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of years ago.Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky meteorites originating from within our solar system that create fascinating shooting stars in the night sky, it's...Wednesday, January 29, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have observed an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as FCC 224. Results of the observational campaign, published Jan. 18 on the...Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
As humankind imagines living off-planet -- on the moon, Mars and beyond -- the question of how to sustain life revolves around the physical necessities of oxygen, food and water. We know there is water on the moon, but how do we find it?...Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their...Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these giants were massive, extremely luminous stars that lived short lives, many of which ended when they exploded as...Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, Itsuki Sakon and Takashi Onaka have...Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), Chilean astronomers have observed a cataclysmic variable known as V1425 Aql. As a result, they have found that this system hosts an arc-shaped nova shell. The finding is presented in a research paper...Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) provide new evidence that...Monday, January 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Astronomers and engineers have developed a specialized system for their radio telescope to rapidly detect mysterious fast radio bursts and other space phenomena.Monday, January 27, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach.Monday, January 27, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Originally discovered in 2007 by American astronomer Duncan Lorimer (for whom the...Monday, January 27, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data analysis focused only on one of the...Monday, January 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres...Monday, January 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and the only one that has a significant...Monday, January 27, 2025 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years...