Sep. 16, 2020 — Thanks to a bevy of telescopes in space and on Earth -- and even a pair of amateur astronomers in Arizona -- astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting at breakneck speed around a ...
Sep. 16, 2020 — With almost two decades of mid-infrared imaging from the largest observatories around the world including the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers was able to capture the spiral motion of newly ...
Sep. 14, 2020 — A planet observed crossing in front of, or transiting, a low-mass star has been determined to be about the size of ...
Sep. 10, 2020 — Astronomers have discovered a supernova that could help uncover the origins of the group of supernovae this star belongs ...
Sep. 9, 2020 — Astronomers have discovered that a halo of warm gas surrounding the Magellanic Clouds likely acts as a protective cocoon, shielding the dwarf galaxies from the Milky Way's own halo and ...
Sep. 3, 2020 — In our Solar System, the eight planets and many other minor objects orbit in a flat plane around the Sun; but in some distant systems, planets orbit on an incline -- sometimes a very steep one. New ...
Sep. 2, 2020 — Researchers have detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves. The product of the merger is the first clear detection of an ...
Aug. 31, 2020 — Astronomers have for the first time directly observed the columns of matter that build up newborn stars. This was observed in the young star TW Hydrae system located approximately 163 light years ...
Aug. 31, 2020 — Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole in the galaxy at the heart of the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster, located 5.9 billion light-years away in the constellation ...
Aug. 26, 2020 — When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study the ...
Aug. 21, 2020 — New simulations show that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets -- freely floating bodies that drift through our galaxy untethered to a ...
Aug. 19, 2020 — Researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the center of the Milky Way 'like ...
Aug. 17, 2020 — Engineers have simulated the crushing pressure created as white dwarf stars cease to produce their own fuel, leaving only an extremely dense core. The results add to growing evidence about the ...
Aug. 13, 2020 — Observations are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that ...
Aug. 12, 2020 — The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world's astronomers. An international research team ...
Aug. 12, 2020 — New theoretical research finds that many white dwarfs may explode in supernova in the distant far future, long after everything else in the universe has died and gone ...
Aug. 11, 2020 — Scientists have made a key discovery thanks to stardust found in meteorites, shedding light on the origin of crucial chemical ...
Aug. 11, 2020 — NASA's TESS has completed its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky during a two-year-long survey. TESS has found 66 new planets, nearly 2,100 candidates, and much ...
Aug. 10, 2020 — An international team has made a key discovery related to 'presolar grains' found in some meteorites. This discovery has shed light on stellar explosions and the origin of chemical ...
Aug. 7, 2020 — Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolution state. This census helps researchers ...
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