Astronomers, through a decade-long infrared survey, have discovered a new type of elderly giant star and numerous protostars in the Milky Way. This groundbreaking study,…
Posts published in “Royal Astronomical Society”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Researchers have identified a correlation between the Sun’s magnetic field and sunspot cycles, predicting that the peak of the current solar cycle is imminent. This…
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…
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.…
A lonely Milky Way analog galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies…
An artist’s illustration of a black hole. The black hole is over 1 billion light-years away. A team of astronomers has found a unique black…
Artist impression of the pulsar-planet system PSR B1257+12 detected in 1992. The pulsar and three radiation-doused planets are all that remains of a dead star…
Artist’s impression of a rare kind of stellar merger event between two white dwarf stars. Credit: Nicole Reindl A team of German astronomers, led by…
At the very center of the simulation (and our own Universe) is the Milky Way galaxy, and our nearest massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (known…
Artist’s concept illustration of a supermassive black hole emitting an x-ray jet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés,…
All-sky map of the Milky Way in motion using the Gaia data. Areas with significant motion are shown in black/purple and those with relatively low…
A finder chart depicting the location of the radiant of the Quadrantids meteor shower, from Astronomy Now magazine. Credit: Astronomy Now/Greg Smye-Rumsby (CC BY 4.0)…
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…
The final stage of cataclysmic explosions of dying massive stars, called supernovae, could pack an up to six times bigger punch on the surrounding interstellar…
An image of Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, made with the Hubble Space Telescope. The bright blue clumps in the spiral arms are sites of…
False-color image of the Martian meteorite nicknamed “Block Island.” This image was taken with the panoramic camera of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on July…
When the Sun evolves to become a red giant star, the Earth may be swallowed by our star’s atmosphere, and with a much more unstable…
SuperBIT: A Low-Cost Telescope To Rival Hubble – Carried by a Balloon the Size of a Football Stadium
SuperBIT: A Low-Cost Telescope To Rival Hubble – Carried by a Balloon the Size of a Football Stadium
A SuperBIT optical and ultraviolet composite image of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, trunks of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away…
Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 2020, providing the sharpest view to date of the breakup of the…