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…
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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…
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…
Star formation. Credit: University of Zurich How stars form in galaxies remains a major open question. Robert Feldmann sheds new light on this topic with…
Researchers may have found the long-sought “nanoflares” thought to heat the solar corona to its incredible temperatures. A new study published in Nature Astronomy marks…
Artist’s composition of the two brown dwarfs, in the foreground Oph 98B in purple, in the background Oph 98A in red. Oph 98A is the…
Images of the sun captured by the IRIS mission show new details of how low-lying loops of plasma are energized and may also reveal how…
Artist’s impression of flare from our neighbouring star Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet. Credit: Mark Myers/OzGrav Stellar Flares With a Chance of…
Using NASA’s SOFIA telescope, researchers from the University of Kansas have found CQ 4479, a galaxy which never had been closely studied before, to be…
[embedded content] The stars are constantly moving across the sky. Known as proper motion, this motion is imperceptible to the unaided eye but is being…
Giant planets that developed early in a star system’s life could solve a mystery of why spiral structures are not observed in young protoplanetary discs,…
New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause some emissions to dim and others to…
View into the interior of the Borexino detector. Credit: Borexino Collaboration Neutrinos Yield First Experimental Evidence of Catalyzed Fusion Dominant in Many Stars An international…
This megamaser galaxy is named IRAS 16399-0937 and is located over 370 million light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla) The…
The Blue Ring Nebula, which perplexed scientists for over a decade, appears to be the youngest known example of two stars merged into one. In…
On May 24, four European telescopes took part in the global effort to understand mysterious cosmic flashes. The telescopes captured flashes of radio waves from…
Magnetar-Powered Kilonova Blast. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI) Neutron-Star Collision Releases Puzzling Burst of Infrared Light In our infinite universe, stars can go…
The site for astronomy at Dome A. Credit: SHANG Zhaohui A research team led by Prof. SHANG Zhaohui from National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese…