The gravitational lenses might also let us “see” the invisible dark matter that makes up most of the Universe. The dozens of newly identified gravitational…
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Many stars in the center of the Milky Way have high heavy metal content. Credit: Michael Franklin Stars are giant factories that produce most of…
Galaxies pump out contaminated exhausts. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomical Productions Research Reveals How Star-Making Pollutes the Cosmos Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in,…
Mystery Star Explained by New Type of Massive Cosmic Explosion – 10x More Energetic Than a Supernova
Mystery Star Explained by New Type of Massive Cosmic Explosion – 10x More Energetic Than a Supernova
‘Magneto-rotational hypernova’ soon after the Big Bang fuelled high levels of uranium, zinc in ancient stellar oddity. A massive explosion from a previously unknown source…
Galaxy UGC 10738, seen edge-on through the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, revealing distinct thick and thin discs. Credit: Jesse van de…
The complex mechanics determining how galaxies spin, grow, cluster and die have been revealed following the release of all the data gathered during a massive…
Representation of the orbit of the star 232121.57-160505.4 in the Galactocentric cartesian frame, colour coded according to the time. The white dot represents the current…
This artist’s conception portrays two neutron stars at the moment of collision. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. Colliding neutron stars were touted as the…
This is an artist’s impression of the ring galaxy. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomy Productions Unusual galaxy set to prompt rethink on how structures in…
Sky survey provides clues to how galaxies change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A…
Researchers find evidence of a cataclysmic flare that punched so far out of the galaxy its impact was felt 200,000 light years away. A titanic,…
In this image of the Epoch of Reionization, neutral hydrogen, in red, is gradually ionized by the first stars, shown in white. The image was…