. Scientific Frontline: Astronomy
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars

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This research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them in spectacular discs. Thi...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Metal scar found on cannibal star

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This artist’s impression shows the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310, where astronomers have found a scar imprinted on its surface as a resul...
Friday, February 23, 2024

New moons of Uranus and Neptune announced

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The discovery image of the new Uranian moon S/2023 U1 using the Magellan telescope on November 4, 2023.  Uranus is just off the field of vie...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Black hole fashions stellar beads on a string

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The international team used a combination of X-ray, radio, and optical data to understand how this unusual chain of star clusters formed ste...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Radcliffe Wave is Waving

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How the Radcliffe Wave moves through the backyard of our Sun (yellow dot). Blue dots are clusters of baby stars. The white line is a theoret...

Scientists use Summit supercomputer to explore exotic stellar phenomena

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Astrophysicists at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and University of California, Berkeley created 3D simulations of X-ray bur...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Astronomers identify record-breaking quasar

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This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive b...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

SwRI scientists find evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets

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Eris and Makemake Image Credit: Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hy...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Discovery of Unexpected Ultramassive Galaxies May Not Rewrite Cosmology, But Still Leaves Questions

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Infrared view of the universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI. Ever since the James Webb ...
Monday, February 12, 2024

SwRI Scientists Identify Water Molecules on Asteroids for the First Time

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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas/SwRI Using data from the retired Stratospheric Obser...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets

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In the search for extraterrestrial life, MIT scientists say a planet’s carbon-lite atmosphere, relative to its neighbors, could be a sure an...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Cosmic lights in the forest

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TACC’s Frontera, the fastest academic supercomputer in the US, is a strategic national capability computing system funded by the National Sc...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Exoplanets' climate – it takes nothing to switch from habitable to hell

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Runaway greenhouse effect can transform a temperate habitable planet with surface liquid water ocean into a hot steam dominated planet hosti...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Long-sought binary star population found! Discovery could answer questions about hydrogen-poor supernova origins

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An artist’s conception of the hydrogen being stripped from one half of a binary system, leaving a very hot, helium rich exposed core that wi...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Researchers stunned by Webb’s new high-definition look at exploded star

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A roughly circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with cl...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

SwRI-led Lucy observes first-ever contact binary orbiting an asteroid

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This image shows the asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI). As NASA's Lucy S...
Monday, November 6, 2023

Mystery Resolved: Black Hole Feeding and Feedback at the Center of an Active Galaxy

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Fig. 1 An illustration depicting the distribution of interstellar medium in the active galactic nucleus based on the results of this observa...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

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Modeling by Cornell astronomers finds that telescopes could more easily detect an exoplanet with higher levels of atmospheric oxygen than mo...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Giant planets cast a deadly pall

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Artist's depiction of a star system that is crowded with giant planets. Illustration Credit: NASA/Dana Berry Giant gas planets can be ag...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Sheffield astronomers help to confirm heaviest elements in the Universe are formed in kilonovae

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The Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 230307A and its associated kilonova explosion. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (Radboud University a...