. Scientific Frontline: Astrophysics
Showing posts with label Astrophysics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astrophysics. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Ghostly particles: Is dark radiation masquerading as neutrinos?

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Bhupal Dev / Associate Professor of Physics Photo Credit: Courtesy of Washington University in St. Louis Scientific Frontline: Extended ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

SwRI-led research indicates a more complex Sun’s magnetic engine

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to fly through the corona, the Sun's upper atmosphere, and offers a unique perspec...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

A Solar System in the making? Two planets spotted forming in disc around young star

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This image shows two planets being born around the young star WISPIT 2. These observations were made with the SPHERE instrument at ESO’s Ver...
Monday, March 23, 2026

New Explanation for Unique ‘Negative Superhump’ Features of Deep-Space Binary Star Systems

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Image Credit: S. Lepp (UNLV) / AI illustration Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Negative Superhump Features in Deep-S...

'Space Archaeology' Reveals First Dynamic History of a Giant Spiral Galaxy

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An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, stirring up sta...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Asteroid 16 Psyche Main Discovery : The internal porosity of asteroid 16 Psyche sign...

From dust to planets: a turbulent story

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Shear-Flow Instability in Planet Formation Main Discovery : Researchers have provide...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Exoplanets: Conditions suitable for life on distant moons

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A realistic depiction of a free-floating gas giant planet and its Earth-like moon  Image Credit: © Dahlbüdding/DALL-E Scientific Frontline: ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Stars like our Sun may maintain the same rotation pattern for life, contrary to 45 years of theoretical predictions

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Solar magnetic activity observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science t...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Study reveals cosmic tug-of-war behind the Crab Pulsar’s zebra stripes

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Most pulsar radio emissions are spectrally broader and noisy — not banded so cleanly like the Crab Pulsar. An NASA image of the Crab Nebula ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Scientists Capture the Clearest View Yet of a Star Collapsing Into a Black Hole

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The image shows a shell of thick gas and dust (red) expelled from the outer layers of a star as its core collapsed into a black hole. The in...

CHEOPS detects a new planetary "disorder"

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Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 Image Credit: © ESA Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary...
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...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Supermassive black holes sit in ‘eye of their own storms,’ studies find

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An artist’s rendition of the immediate vicinity around the supermassive black hole known as M87*. However, the roiling, superhot gases aroun...
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...

NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter’s Influence on the Universe

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Created using data from NASAs Webb telescope in 2026 (right) and from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2007 (left), these images show the prese...
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 13, 2026

The path to solar weather forecasts

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Three heads are better than one. Diagram to show the different satellites that made up the ad-hoc sensor network in this study. Their combin...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Tiny Mars’ big impact on Earth’s climate

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Differences in the way Earth and Mars orbit the sun. Image Credit: NASA Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

How Many Ghost Particles All the Milky Way’s Stars Send Towards Earth

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A map of the Milky Way based on data from ESA's Gaia telescope Image Credit: ESA Every second, a trillion of the elusive ghost particles...