Astronomy

Theories of How Planets form are Put to the Test by a Puzzling Six-Exoplanet System with Rhythmic Movement

Theories of How Planets form are Put to the Test by a Puzzling Six-Exoplanet System with Rhythmic Movement

A system of six exoplanets has been discovered by scientists using a variety of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory…
A Spiral Galaxy’s Deep Hidden Structures Are Captured By A New JWST Image

A Spiral Galaxy’s Deep Hidden Structures Are Captured By A New JWST Image

New images of the spiral galaxy IC 5332 have been acquired by the two space telescope heavyweights, Hubble and JWST. JWST is able to expose…
Super-Bright Stellar Explosion Likely Black Hole or Neutron Star Birth from Dying Star

Super-Bright Stellar Explosion Likely Black Hole or Neutron Star Birth from Dying Star

In June 2018, a spectacular blue flash from a spiral arm of a galaxy 200 million light years away was detected by telescopes all across…
Spiraling Stars Discovered by Hubble, Providing a Window into the Early Universe

Spiraling Stars Discovered by Hubble, Providing a Window into the Early Universe

Stars are the machines that shape the universe, but scientists still don’t understand how they form. Researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite…
NASA Plans to Launch the PUNCH Mission in 2025

NASA Plans to Launch the PUNCH Mission in 2025

More than 60 engineers and scientists are gathering at Southwest Research Institute Aug. 23-24 to kick off the launch vehicle collaboration for NASA’s Polarimeter to…
‘Intruder’ Caught Redhanded by ALMA in Rarely Detected Stellar Flyby Event

‘Intruder’ Caught Redhanded by ALMA in Rarely Detected Stellar Flyby Event

Researchers utilizing the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) made a rare identification of a probable stellar…
History of Earth’s Rotation is shown through Byzantine Solar Eclipse Records

History of Earth’s Rotation is shown through Byzantine Solar Eclipse Records

To improve understanding of the variation of Earth’s rotation in the 4th-7th centuries CE, a research team analyzed Byzantine records from this period to identify…
A New Catalog of Tens of Millions of Stars Reveals the Chemical History of the Milky Way

A New Catalog of Tens of Millions of Stars Reveals the Chemical History of the Milky Way

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and their partners from China and Australia have published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million…
New Hubble Image Shows “Space Triangle” Resulting from Galaxy Collision

New Hubble Image Shows “Space Triangle” Resulting from Galaxy Collision

A recent image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows how a stunning head-on collision between two galaxies caused the odd triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy. The two…
Watch the DART collision with the asteroid, as seen by telescopes on Earth

Watch the DART collision with the asteroid, as seen by telescopes on Earth

When an unmanned spacecraft collided with an asteroid on Monday, all astronomers focused on NASA’s DART project to see whether we might prevent another disastrous…
A Passing Dwarf Galaxy caused Mysterious Ripples in the Milky Way

A Passing Dwarf Galaxy caused Mysterious Ripples in the Milky Way

Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that large parts of the Milky…
Asteroid Impacts on Moon are Mirrored on Earth by a Lunar Glass

Asteroid Impacts on Moon are Mirrored on Earth by a Lunar Glass

A Curtin-led research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on…
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