Astronomy

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.This post was originally published on this site

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren’t very many of them, with only around 20 known specimens in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic […]

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and […]

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet’s orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.This post was originally published on this […]

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy—two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for infinity.This post was originally published […]

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new study reveals that major satellite constellations, including Starlink, BlueBird, and OneWeb, are significantly brighter […]

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system on July 3.This post […]

Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster R136, 60,000 years ago. The analysis, published in Physical Review Letters, reveals that five stars were […]

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find evidence of […]

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe’s most extreme events—black holes smashing into each other.This post was originally published on this site