Image of archaea. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used know-how from gravitational-wave astronomy (used to…
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An artistic rendering of generic stellar streams in the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, SSC & Caltech Examination of Theia 456 finds its nearly 500…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar yet. J1818.0-1607 is located about 21,000…
An artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 showing the supermassive black hole and the extremely high velocity wind. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after…
A secret behind the workings of sunquakes – seismic activity on the Sun during solar flares – might be hidden beneath the solar surface. These…
Interactions with binary companions shape the stellar winds blowing from elderly stars, generating the dazzling array of complex shapes found in the planetary nebulae they…
This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted approximately 1,700 years ago. The stellar corpse, a supernova…
Magnetic field streamlines detected by SOFIA are shown over an image of the Whirlpool galaxy, M51, from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. For the first time,…
This artist’s concept shows the planet KOI-5Ab transiting across the face of a sun-like star, which is part of a triple-star system located 1,800 light-years…
Gamma-ray bursts, as shown in this illustration, are the most powerful explosions in the universe. They emit most of their energy in gamma rays, light…
An international team of astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar in the Universe, fully formed around 670 million years after the Big Bang. Credit:…
As the universe evolves, matter concentrations are surrounded by gas halos getting hotter and bigger. Credit: D. Nelson / Illustris Collaboration The universe is getting…
Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through…
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope reveals a new type of star in X-ray light. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, L. Oskinova/University Potsdam, Germany This image shows a new type…
Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL Planetary scientists wondered if bands of winds or swirling storms dominated the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. University…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as…
Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers are searching for signs of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy…
An astro-statistics course University of California, Riverside, graduate student Remington O. Sexton took three years ago taught him techniques that led him to develop free,…
NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers. Through small satellites and scientific balloons, these selections…
591 high velocity stars’ positions and orbits. Credit: Kong Xiao of NAOC A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy…