Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are known to have the most relativistic jets, with initial Lorentz factors in the order of a few hundreds. Many GRBs display…
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An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The sudden slowdown of a star in 2020 provides an opportunity to…
Artist impression of the four classes of planetary system architecture. A new architecture framework allows researchers to study an entire planetary system at the systems…
Artist’s concept of a growing black hole seen at the center of a faraway galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive…
Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie…
Figure 1. Two exceptionally bright galaxies were captured in GLASS-JWST program. These galaxies existed approximately 450 and 350 million years after the Big Bang (with…
James Webb Space Telescope artist’s conception. Credit: NASA-GSFC, Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several…
The radio telescope array ALMA has pin-pointed the exact cosmic age of a distant JWST-identified galaxy, GHZ2/GLASS-z12, at 367 million years after the Big Bang.…
Recent astronomical observations have revealed the existence of six huge galaxies in the early universe, which challenges the previous understanding of galaxy formation. Joel Leja,…
A trio of faint objects (circled) captured in the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 exhibit properties remarkably similar…
Artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole. Cosmological coupling allows black holes to grow in mass without consuming gas or stars. Credit: UH Manoa Searching…
Two interacting galaxies viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team A study conducted by the University of Southampton has uncovered the process…
Contours of magnetic fields that emerge a result of self-organization of microscopic currents resulting from the Weibel instability in a carbon dioxide laser-produced plasma probed…
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of a galaxy cluster (SMACS0723). The five zoomed in galaxies are so far away that we observe…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits Earth in this illustration. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses…
This artist’s impression shows how the rings might look from close to the surface of Chariklo. Credit: NASA/JPL In an observational feat of high precision,…
Artist’s conception of a rocky Earth-mass exoplanet like Wolf 1069 b orbiting a red dwarf star. If the planet had retained its atmosphere, chances are…
Halo-like solar corona. Credit: NASA Breakthrough in identifying the puzzling cause. Researchers discovered a previously unknown heating mechanism that explains why the “solar corona,” the…
A team of scientists, comprising experts from the University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, have made a game-changing announcement with their release of…
Rendering of Jupiter Trojan Swarm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An…