Tag Archive for 'Eclipse'

Study location in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. Image credit: Monica Gagliano / Southern Cross University.

Study: Spruce Trees Anticipate Solar Eclipses, Synchronize Bioelectrical Behavior Hours in Advance

May 5, 2025 by News Staff

Regular light-dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioral shifts. While well documented...

Perseverance captured the silhouette of Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on September 30, 2024. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS.

Perseverance Views Transit of Martian Moon Phobos across the Sun

Oct 30, 2024 by News Staff

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of Phobos — the larger and inner of the two natural satellites of Mars — as it passed in...

This artist’s concept illustrates how tightly the three stars in the TIC 290061484 system orbit each other. If they were placed at the center of our solar system, all the stars’ orbits would be contained a space smaller than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun. The sizes of the triplet stars and the Sun are also to scale. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

TESS Discovers Record-Breaking Triply-Eclipsing Triple Star

Oct 2, 2024 by News Staff

TIC 290061484 contains a pair of stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just 25 days. The discovery smashes...

The TRAPPIST-1 system is remarkable for its seven planets that are similar in size, mass, density, and stellar heating to the rocky planets Venus, Earth, and Mars in our own Solar System. This illustration shows what the rocky planet TRAPPIST-1b could look like based on the new study. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / J. Olmsted, STScI.

Webb Measures Temperature of TRAPPIST-1b

Mar 28, 2023 by News Staff

The dayside of TRAPPIST-1b, the innermost planet in the seven-planet system TRAPPIST-1, has a temperature of about 227 degrees Celsius (441 degrees Fahrenheit),...

An orbiting star begins to eclipse its partner, a rapidly rotating, superdense stellar remnant called a pulsar, in this illustration. Image credit: NASA / Sonoma State University / Aurore Simonnet.

Fermi Detects Gamma-Ray Eclipses from Seven ‘Spider’ Binary Systems

Jan 26, 2023 by News Staff

Spider binary systems contain a pulsar — the superdense, rapidly rotating remains of a star that exploded as a supernova — that slowly erodes...

This illustration shows NASA’s Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. Image credit: Southwest Research Institute.

Lucy Observes Total Lunar Eclipse from 100 Million Kilometers Away

May 24, 2022 by News Staff

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully observed the May 15-16, 2022 total lunar eclipse from a unique vantage point, 100 million km (64 million miles) from...

TESS Discovers Jupiter-Sized Exoplanet around Ancient Binary Star

May 24, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The newfound circumbinary planet, named TIC 172900988b, is slightly larger than Jupiter and transits both of its host stars, according to a paper to be...

Structure of TIC 168789840, a sextuple system of three eclipsing binaries arranged as inner quadruple AC and outer binary B. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

TESS Discovers Sextuply-Eclipsing Six-Star System

Jan 25, 2021 by Natali Anderson

TIC 168789840 is the first known sextuple (six-star) system consisting of three eclipsing binaries. Structure of TIC 168789840, a sextuple system of three...

An artist’s impression of the Roque 12 binary system in the Pleiades cluster. Image credit: Sci-News.com / NASA / ESA / AURA / Caltech.

Young Brown Dwarf in Pleiades Cluster Has Companion

Jun 11, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have found evidence of a substellar companion — a low-mass brown dwarf or a giant planet — orbiting Roque 12, a member of the young...