. Scientific Frontline: Astronomy
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first time

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This animation shows the four giant planets orbiting HR 8799, located 133 light-years from Earth. The movie combines real images captured at...
Monday, January 26, 2026

What Is: Cosmic Event Horizon

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The Final Boundary An illustration of the Cosmic Event Horizon. Unlike the Observable Universe, which is defined by light that has reached u...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

UrFU Researchers Discovered “Laughing Gas” in Interstellar Ices around Protostars

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Anton Vasyunin leads the research group and laboratory. Photo Credit: UrFU press service Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

International astronomical survey captures remarkable images of the “teenage years” of new worlds

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This ARKS gallery of faint debris disks reveals details about their shape: belts with multiple rings, wide smooth halos, sharp edges, and un...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Cosmic Lens Reveals Hyperactive Cradle of Future Galaxy Cluster

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The galaxy cluster lens J0846 in optical light (bottom right), the ALMA view of dust-enshrouded, star-forming galaxies strongly lensed into ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Young Galaxies Grow Up Fast

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The 18 galaxies from the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST survey. Each picture shows the location of ionized gas (as traced by the hydrogen alpha line, t...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models

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Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot intracluster at...
Friday, December 5, 2025

A speed camera for the universe

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The stars (or rather galaxies) of the show. A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Helium leak on the exoplanet WASP-107b

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Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and for...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Stars defy the black hole: research in Cologne shows stable orbits around Sagittarius A*

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Image Credit: NASA New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove from the assumption that the...
Monday, November 17, 2025

A sparkling ‘Diamond Ring’ in space: Astronomers in Cologne unravel the mystery of a cosmic ring

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Stars Brewing in Cygnus X Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA The structure of gas and dust resembles a glowing diamond r...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Astronomers discover a superheated star factory in the early universe

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Glowing deep red from the distant past: galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled in this image from the ...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Astronomy: In-Depth Description

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James Webb Space Telescope view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disc located about 525 light-years away in a dark cloud within the Taur...
Friday, November 7, 2025

McGill-led team maps ‘weather’ on a nearby brown dwarf in unprecedented detail

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Study reveals patchy clouds and shifting atmospheric layers on a free-floating planetary-mass object just 20 light-years away, offering pote...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

New study revises our picture of the most common planets in the galaxy

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A new study finds that many “mini-Neptunes”—perhaps the most common planets in the galaxy—are under so much pressure from their heavy atmosp...
Monday, October 20, 2025

X-Ray Study Reveals New Details About Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

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Betelbuddy, the companion star to Betelgeuse. This image is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Image Cre...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Moon-forming disc around massive planet

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An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disc encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from t...
Monday, February 10, 2025

UP-led astronomy research team explores formation of giant radio galaxies

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An artistic representation of a what a giant cosmic jet the size of the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda could look like Illustr...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

SwRI models pluto-charon formation scenario that mimics earth-moon system

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Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon syste...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Scientists Have Detailed the Nature of the Darkest Gamma-ray Burst in the Universe

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Objects like GRB 150309A tend to be located deep within galaxies. Photo Credit:  Graham Holtshausen An international group of scientists has...