Tag Archive for 'Universe'

This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the central part of the spiral galaxy NGC 1589. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes NGC 1589

Mar 9, 2020 by Natali Anderson

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the central region of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1589. This image,...

Wells et al estimate that there should be at least 10 -- currently undiscovered -- exoplanets which are favorably located to detect the Earth and are capable of sustaining life as we know it. Image credit: NASA.

Study: Life Might Be Common in Inflationary Universe

Mar 6, 2020 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of Tokyo’s Professor Tomonori Totani looked at how the building blocks of life could...

A simulation of the large-scale structure of the Universe with filaments of dark matter in blue and places of galaxy formation in yellow. Image credit: Zarija Lukic / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

New Candidate Particle for Dark Matter: D-Star Hexaquark

Mar 4, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dark matter is the mysterious substance that makes up roughly a quarter of the Universe. There is strong indirect evidence for its existence from measurements...

The structure of our Milky Way Galaxy with its warped Galactic disk, where the majority of its hundreds of billions of stars reside. Data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft recently proved that the disk’s warp is precessing, essentially moving around similarly to a wobbling spinning top. The speed of the warp’s rotation is so high that it must have been caused by a rather powerful event, astronomers believe, perhaps an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy which sends ripples through the disk like a rock thrown into water. Image credit: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar / NASA / JPL-Caltech / ESA.

Milky Way’s Warp Caused by Recent or Ongoing Encounter with Satellite Galaxy

Mar 3, 2020 by News Staff

Data from ESA’s Gaia star-mapping satellite show that the warped disk of our Milky Way Galaxy precesses, or wobbles, similarly to the motion of a spinning...

Abel et al present the result of an experiment to measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron at the Paul Scherrer Institute using Ramsey’s method of separated oscillating magnetic fields with ultracold neutrons. Image credit: Gerd Altmann.

Physicists Precisely Measure Electric Dipole Moment of Neutron

Mar 2, 2020 by News Staff

In a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters, an international team of physicists reports the most precise measurement ever made of the electric dipole...

This Hubble image shows the central part of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887. The image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in the infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. It is based on data obtained through three filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / P. Erwin et al.

Hubble Space Telescope Zooms In on NGC 3887

Mar 2, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing photo of the central region of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 3887. This Hubble image shows...

Evidence for the biggest black hole eruption seen in the Universe comes from a combination of X-ray data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, and the Murchison Widefield Array and Giant Metrewave Telescope, as shown here. The eruption is generated by a black hole located in the central galaxy of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which has blasted out jets and carved a large cavity in the surrounding hot gas. Image credit: NASA / CXC / NRL / S. Giacintucci et al / ESA / XMM-Newton / NCRA / TIFR / GMRT / 2MASS / UMass / IPAC-Caltech / NSF.

Universe’s Most Powerful Black Hole Eruption Spotted

Feb 28, 2020 by News Staff

Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with two ground-based radio telescopes in Australia and India,...

This Hubble image shows NGC 691, a spiral galaxy located 125 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. The image is made up of observations from Hubble’s WFC3 instrument in the infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Riess et al.

Hubble Space Telescope Views NGC 691

Feb 24, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 691. This Hubble image shows NGC 691, a spiral...

This Hubble image shows Messier 104. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA.

Strikingly Metal-Rich Halo of Messier 104 Suggests Turbulent Past

Feb 21, 2020 by News Staff

Messier 104, a lenticular galaxy located 28 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, now has a new chapter in its story — an extended...

This Hubble image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4689. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It is based on data obtained through three filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Takes Closer Look at Stunning Spiral Galaxy: NGC 4689

Feb 17, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed the central part of a spiral galaxy called NGC 4689. This Hubble image shows the...

An artist’s impression of an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Asteroid Belt Will Be Pulverised by Sun in Six Billion Years, Researchers Predict

Feb 11, 2020 by News Staff

According to new research by University of Warwick and University of Colorado, Boulder scientists, electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their...

This Hubble image shows NGC 2008, a spiral galaxy located 426 million light-years away in the constellation Pictor. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Bellini.

Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 2008

Feb 10, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 2008. This Hubble image shows NGC 2008, a...

Extremely Massive Quiescent Galaxy Spotted in Early Universe

Feb 6, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Multi-Object Spectrograph for Infrared Exploration (MOSFIRE) at the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered an ultramassive galaxy...

This Hubble image reveals a detailed view of the central part of the grand design spiral galaxy NGC 5364. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / L. Ho.

Hubble Focuses on Grand Design Spiral Galaxy NGC 5364

Feb 3, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of the central part of a grand design spiral galaxy called NGC 5364. This Hubble image reveals...

This Hubble image shows NGC 7541, a barred spiral galaxy located 103.7 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Riess et al.

Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 7541

Jan 27, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7541. This Hubble image shows NGC 7541, a barred...

This image shows the ancient dwarf star J0815+4729 (center). Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD / SDSS.

Astronomers Find Huge Amount of Oxygen in Ancient Dwarf Star

Jan 24, 2020 by News Staff

Using high-resolution spectroscopic observations from the High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the 10-m Keck I telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory,...

This illustration shows the surroundings of a black hole feeding on ambient gas as mapped using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. Image credit: ESA.

Astronomers Map Surroundings of Supermassive Black Hole

Jan 22, 2020 by News Staff

As material spirals towards a black hole, it is heated up and emits X-rays that, in turn, echo and reverberate as they interact with nearby gas. These...

An artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its outskirts (pullout). The black hole is drawing in material that forms a rotating disk and generates jets of material propelled outward. Image credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO / AUI / NSF.

Wandering Massive Black Holes Detected in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies

Jan 21, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have observed 111 nearby dwarf galaxies within...

This scanning electron microscope image shows a tardigrade. Image credit: Diane Nelson, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Could Invisible Extraterrestrial Life Forms Really Exist Among Us?

Jan 21, 2020 by The Conversation

Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym ‘MRS-GREN’...

No one knows what dark matter is, but this invisible form of matter makes up roughly a quarter of the Universe. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Astrophysicists are Taking Dark Matter’s Temperature

Jan 16, 2020 by News Staff

Astrophysicists have very little idea of what dark matter is and they have yet to detect a dark matter particle. But they do know that the gravity of clumps...

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