Mar 9, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disk around V883 Orionis, a...

Mar 7, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the emission nebula IC 4701. This OmegaCAM/VST image shows...

Mar 6, 2023 by News Staff

It has been suggested for a long time that dark matter would form a density spike around a black hole. However, no promising evidence has been observed...

Mar 3, 2023 by News Staff

The members of the LP 413-53AB system are so close that it takes just 17 hours to revolve around each other. An artist’s rendering of two brown dwarfs....

Mar 2, 2023 by News Staff

Supernova (SN) 185 occurred in 185 CE in the direction of Alpha Centauri, between the constellations of Circinus and Centaurus, and remained visible to...

Mar 1, 2023 by Natali Anderson

X3a is approximately 10 times larger than the Sun, 15 times as massive, and is only several tens of thousands of years old. Multiwavelength detection of...

Feb 27, 2023 by News Staff

An elongated dust and gas feature named X7 has a mass of about 50 Earth masses and is on an orbital path around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black...

Feb 15, 2023 by News Staff

Cosmological coupling — a newly-predicted phenomenon in Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity — allows black holes to grow in mass without...

Feb 14, 2023 by News Staff

Dr. Lokesh Mishra and his colleagues from the University of Bern and Geneva Observatory propose that the space of planetary system architectures be partitioned...

Feb 8, 2023 by News Staff

The Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), which is located 2.5 million light-years away, is the Milky Way’s nearest large galactic neighbor. By measuring the...

Feb 2, 2023 by News Staff

In November 2019, the nearby single, isolated white dwarf LAWD 37 aligned closely with a distant background source and caused a so-called microlensing...

Jan 31, 2023 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers with Breakthrough Listen Initiative — the largest ever scientific research...

Jan 30, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured the reflectance spectrum of the double-ringed centaur 10199 Chariklo and observed...

Jan 27, 2023 by News Staff

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic...

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...

Jan 24, 2023 by News Staff

The second data release of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2), which took two years to complete and produced more than 10 terabytes of data...

Jan 23, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water ice as well as frozen forms of carbonyl sulfide, ammonia, methane, and...

Jan 23, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a detailed image of a small part of the famous Orion Nebula. This Hubble image shows two...

Jan 17, 2023 by News Staff

Using the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes in Australia, astronomers have observed a large section of the Galactic plane of the Milky Way. A part of the...

Jan 16, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers from the University of California, Santa Cruz and elsewhere have discovered 208 new RR Lyrae variable stars in the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy;...