Southern Cross (view from Merna Mora, South Australia). Credit: James St. John (CC BY 2.0) An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States,…
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Artist’s schematic of how Lunar Prospector provided data to estimate neutron lifetime. Cosmic rays striking the moon’s surface eject neutrons that gradually fly into space.…
This magnificent coronal mass ejection from our sun occured in 2012. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers spying on a stellar system located dozens of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe…
This image shows the most massive planet-hosting star pair to date, b Centauri, and its giant planet b Centauri b. This is the first time…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
‘Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet.…
Magnetic fields are produced by a dynamo mechanism inside stars and emerge through the surface to the outer atmosphere, where they generate stellar magnetic storms,…
Dark matter concept art. An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the galaxy…
An image of comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) taken November 13, 2021, from June Lake in California. Credit & Copyright: Dan E. Bartlett Now is the…
Artist’s schematic of how Lunar Prospector provided data to estimate neutron lifetime. Cosmic rays striking the moon’s surface eject neutrons that gradually fly into space.…
An illustration of a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet,…
New research led by BU astrophysicist Merav Opher could explain why the heliosphere, a protective magnetic “force field” emanating from our sun and encompassing our…
The hunt for gravitational wavesGravitational waves are distortions or ripples in the fabric of space and time. They were first detected in 2015 by the…
Credit: M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Researchers have predicted the new class of star’s existence for 50 years but until now, never observed…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
Middle panel: Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7479 created from observations at visible and near-infrared wavelengths with 20 cm radio continuum contours in yellow.…
‘Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet.…
An artist’s impression of a close pair of black holes. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large TelescopeThe Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a…
Credit: Jayanne English/EMU/Dark Energy Survey Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen…