This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI) Astrophysicists have developed…
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Artist’s impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University Scientists refine the search for enigmatic continuous…
A Penn State scientist studying crystal structures has developed a new mathematical formula that may solve a decades-old problem in understanding spacetime, the fabric of…
A composite image of the supernova 1E0102.2-7219 contains X-rays from Chandra (blue and purple), visible light data from VLT’s MUSE instrument (bright red), and additional…
Artist’s impression of the gas-rich debris disk. Credit: NAOJ A Dutch-led team of astronomers has discovered that high-mass stars are formed differently from their smaller…
UC Riverside dark matter research program targets assumptions about particle physics. As its name suggests, dark matter — material which makes up about 85% of…
A newly formed star is surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk. This disk, illustrated here around a brown…
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
Anatomy of our Sun. Credit: ESA Core This is where the Sun generates its energy. The temperature in the core is around 15 million degrees…
The rotation of the Galaxy is not included in the video, only the precession with respect to it. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) An…
Dark Matter Particle Explorer. Credit: DAMPE Collaboration Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for…
The SFB-TR 211 investigates the collision of heavy ions and neutron stars under extreme conditions. The simulation image shows the density of two neutron stars…
A panorama of the Galactic Center builds on previous surveys from Chandra and other telescopes. This latest version expands Chandra’s high-energy view farther above and…
Artist’s impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University Five years on from the first discovery…
This illustration shows a white dwarf accreting matter from a companion star. Once the white dwarf reaches a specific mass tipping point, it explodes as…
The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider…
Artist’s illustration of a double neutron star merger. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State/A. Simonnet Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have…
Credit: Queen Mary University of London Researchers have confirmed the existence of magnetic plasma waves, known as Alfvén waves, in the Sun’s photosphere. The study,…
Model for the Earth’s core: Heidelberg researchers verify presence of solar noble gases in metal of an iron meteorite. High-precision noble gas analyses indicate that…
An international team of researchers has produced a map of the dark matter within the local universe, using a model to infer its location due…