Saturday, November 23, 2024 from Universe Today
Astronomers have just found one of the youngest planets ever. At only 3 million years old, planet TIDYE-1b (also known as IRAS 04125+2902 b) is practically in its infancy. By comparison, Earth is 4.5 billion years old: that’s 1500 times...Saturday, November 23, 2024 from Universe Today
Mars formed 4.5 billion years ago, roughly the same time as the Earth. We know that water was stable on Earth since about 4.3 billion years ago, but when was it present on Mars? Researchers investigated a meteorite that originated from...Saturday, November 23, 2024 from Universe Today
Dark matter made out of axions may have the power to make space-time ring like a bell, but only if it is able to steal energy from black holes, according to new research. An intriguing possibility for a candidate for the mysterious dark...Friday, November 22, 2024 from Universe Today
Most of the time the Sun is pretty well-mannered, but occasionally it’s downright unruly. It sometimes throws extremely energetic tantrums. During these events, a solar flare or a shock wave from a coronal mass ejection (CME)...Friday, November 22, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
The entire solar disk in unprecedented detail—this is shown by images of the visible surface of the sun, which researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have now created from 25 individual images taken by the ESA...Friday, November 22, 2024 from Universe Today
One mystery in planetary science is a satisfying origin story for Mars's moons, Phobos and Deimos. Were they chunks of Mars blasted into space by a meteor impact? Were they captured asteroids from the belt? A new supercomputer simulation...Friday, November 22, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth's most powerful telescopes.Friday, November 22, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas that has recently been detected surrounding the Milky Way but has so far remained unexplained.Friday, November 22, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Scientists have constructed the first complete proton energy spectrum observed during an eruptive solar event in Martian space, deepening our understanding of the radiation environment around Mars.Friday, November 22, 2024 from Universe Today
The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, according to new research. Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe, but most of those magnetic fields arise from...Friday, November 22, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
This illustration shows a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star. The star has experienced unusual dips in brightness over a matter of days, as well as much subtler but...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Universe Today
Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode as a supernova. Astronomers have been observing the huge star, named WOH G64, since its discovery in the 1970s....Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
NASA supercomputers are shedding light on what causes some of the sun's most complex behaviors. Using data from the suite of active sun-watching spacecraft currently observing the star at the heart of our solar system, researchers can...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred times brighter in a matter of months. At its peak, FU Ori was intrinsically 100 times brighter than our sun. Unlike...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Universe Today
For a little over a month now, the Earth has been joined by a new ‘mini-moon.’ The object is an asteroid that has been temporarily accompanying Earth on its journey around the Sun. By 25th November it will have departed but before then,...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Universe Today
Despite decades of study, black holes are still one of the most puzzling objects in the Universe. As we know from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the gravitational force of these stellar remnants alters the curvature of...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Universe Today
74 million kilometres is a huge distance from which to observe something. But 74 million km isn’t such a big deal when the object is the Sun. That’s how far away from the Sun the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter was when it captured...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
The search for the universe's dark matter could end tomorrow—given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that 85% of the matter in the universe is not...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
In a new study, a team of astrophysicists led by CU Boulder has set out to unravel the mysteries of UFOs—not the alien spacecraft, but a class of unusually large and red galaxies that researchers have nicknamed Ultra-red Flattened...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Axions are the most likely candidate for enigmatic dark matter that dominates the universe. Astrophysicists are searching for evidence of high-mass axions produced during supernovae. Scientists propose that a quick way to find these...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Every now and then, astronomers will detect an odd kind of radio signal. So powerful it can outshine a galaxy, but lasting only milliseconds. They are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). When they were first discovered a couple of decades...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one of them in detail has been extremely...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI). The new observations reveal...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Researchers at Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences simulated the evolution of massive stars with masses ranging from 50 to 150 solar masses during the nitrogen sequence Wolf-Rayet (WNL) star phase.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
A research team has presented a mechanism that explains how coronal dimmings—darkened, depleted areas on the sun caused by intense plasma eruptions—recover.Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting sun-like stars, a situation that astronomers long thought impossible. Recently, a team has proposed a mechanism for...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a "flame-throwing guitar" has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA's Chandra X-ray...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
After two decades in space, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is performing better than ever thanks to a new operational strategy implemented earlier this year. The spacecraft has made great scientific strides in the years since...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Stars with masses between 10 and 30 times that of the sun, in their final evolutionary stages, form an iron core that ultimately collapses into a neutron star. This collapse releases a tremendous amount of gravitational potential energy...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise questions about whether the Milky Way is truly representative of other galaxies in the universe.Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Using various telescopes, an international team of astronomers has conducted a comprehensive study of a double-lined spectroscopic binary known as HD 34736. The study, published November 6 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
In an article published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, new evidence suggests how supermassive black holes, with masses of several billion times that of our sun, formed so rapidly in less than a billion years after the Big Bang.Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the early universe into the sprawling strands of galaxies we see today. A new study using data from the Dark Energy...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new insights on an extreme phase of stellar evolution, and one...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars—"dead" remnants and "living" stars—in young star clusters. Described in a new study published in The Astrophysical...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
An international team of astronomers has employed the MeerKAT radio telescope to investigate giant radio galaxies in the field of the Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS). They found a new giant radio galaxy that had not been reported...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colorful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured the pair, named R Aquarii, and their symbiotic interactions. Every 44 years the system's violent...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of the solar system. But after the discovery of Neptune in 1846, we've found no other large planets. Sure, we...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a celestial treat—you might see shooting stars, and maybe even fireballs, the biggest and brightest meteors.Monday, November 18, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual "zebra" pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula.Monday, November 18, 2024 from Phys.org: Astronomy News
Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between black holes is mass: some weigh about as much as a star like our sun, while others weigh around a...Thursday, November 14, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of planets outside of our solar system but...Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy.Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made possible by the James Webb Space...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This was the formula that American...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles spectroscopy and helioseismology...Monday, November 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Astronomy News
Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research. But unlike on Earth, the formation and evolution of these vortices are driven by magnetic fields.