Astronomy

Stars like our sun are formed from the collapse of stellar objects called prestellar cores, cold and dense concentrations of gas and dust held together by gravity. While many questions remain about the exact mechanisms […]

For six and a half days in July 2024, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III kept its gaze fixed on the sun. The stratospheric flight, which stretched from the northernmost tip of Sweden to Canada’s […]

We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image exoplanets using current rocket fairings—at least as long as we’re not sending them 500-plus AU away to […]

An international team led by Juan Diego Soler at the University of Vienna used two of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes to uncover previously hidden structures within the Orion Nebula. The project produced the […]

For the first time, astronomers have discovered stellar cocoons rich in complex organic molecules within a supernova remnant. A research team from Niigata University, Gifu University, RIKEN and Kyoto University in Japan used the Atacama […]

Scientists from Queen’s University Belfast have led an international team in the discovery of a rare new planet, which is larger than Jupiter and orbits a distant star every 180 days. Named NGTS-38 b, it […]

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars.This post was originally published on this site

Astronomers spend much of their time mapping the universe, but until now their results have been collected and archived in so many different ways that the data can’t talk to each other.This post was originally […]

Researchers are closer to unraveling a longstanding solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the sun’s tachocline layer of strong shearing motion—a region believed to be critical for creating the violent eruptions of high-energy particles […]

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole tears apart a star, […]