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UrduInternational team of researchers with participation from Göttingen discovers rare gas giant
Tag: ASTROPHYSICS
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions
Found: ‘Poster child’ for being shredded by a black hole
Catching such a rare event in action will help astronomers understand these mysterious phenomena
Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil halo
Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, astronomers analysed the signal from a fast radio burst to shed light on the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy [1]. In November 2018 the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder…
Galaxy surrounded by a halo of tranquil gas
Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas. The massive galaxy, which is about four billion light-years from Earth, is surrounded by a halo of gas that is much…
NASA visualization shows a black hole’s warped world
This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The visualization simulates the appearance of a black hole where infalling matter has collected into a…
Gaute Hagen
Profiled is physicist Gaute Hagen of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who runs advanced models on powerful supercomputers to explore how protons and neutrons interact to “build” an atomic nucleus from scratch.
Naming of new interstellar visitor: 2I/Borisov
Second interstellar object has been spotted and named just two years after the first
Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth’s poles, and the new range of temperatures around the planet set the stage for a boom…
From primordial black holes new clues to dark matter
Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the universe
Research reveals the crucial role of recycling in the evolution of life in our universe
New research by astrophysicists at the University of Kent reveals vital clues about the role recycling plays in the formation of life in our universe. By investigating the different stages in the life journey of stars and gaining new knowledge…
Revolutionary laser instrument receives $4.7 million boost from the National Science Foundation
Deep within the subterranean confines of Building C–the latest addition to the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University–a pathbreaking machine is quietly taking shape. Designed to unlock some of nature’s tiniest and most fleeting mysteries, the Compact X-ray Free Electron…
The stellar nurseries of distant galaxies
An international team headed by UNIGE has discovered that the properties of molecular clouds, and the number of stars they produce, are different depending on whether they are in distant or nearby galaxies
WVU astronomers help detect the most massive neutron star ever measured
West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough uncovered through the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County. The neutron star, called J0740+6620, is a rapidly spinning pulsar that packs 2.17 times the…
VISTA unveils a new image of the Large Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud , or LMC, is one of our nearest galactic neighbors, at only 163 000 light years from Earth. With its sibling the Small Magellanic Cloud , these are among the nearest dwarf satellite galaxies to the…
Saturn’s rings shine in Hubble’s latest portrait
Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using the Hubble Space Telescope to take yearly snapshots of the ringed world when it is at its closest distance to Earth. These images, however, are more than just beauty shots. They…
‘Ringing’ black hole validates Einstein’s general relativity 10 years ahead of schedule
Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old
The rare molecule weighing in on the birth of planets
Astronomers using one of the most advanced radio telescopes have discovered a rare molecule in the dust and gas disc around a young star – and it may provide an answer to one of the conundrums facing astronomers. The star,…
Clemson physicists lead rocket missions to explore Earth’s atmosphere
Clemson University physicists will conduct a pair of three-year rocket missions funded by NASA Helio
Sandia experiments at temperature of sun offer solutions to solar model problems
Sandia’s Z machine helps reconcile sun’s energy and composition
AIP Endowed Professor in History of Natural Sciences named at University of Maryland
Melinda Baldwin will join faculty starting in fall 2020
China Sky Eye, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, is now fully operational
China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, is the world’s most sensitive listening device. The single-dish radio telescope is made of 4,450 individual panels that scan the sky, detecting the universe’s whispers and shouts. It’s cradled in a…
Closing in on elusive particles
Major steps forward in understanding neutrino properties
Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle
York University research confirms protons are smaller than expected
Honorees of the prestigious 2019 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists announced
Winning postdoctoral scientists include neuroscientist researching mosquito feeding habits, theoreti
Space dragons: Researchers observe energy consumption in quasars
Quasars are the Universe’s brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain. In the center of this light, at the heart of a quasar, researchers think, is an all-consuming black hole. Researchers, for…
Texas boosts US science with fastest academic supercomputer in the world
Frontera, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, will power discoveries of nation’s top computation
Busy older stars outpace stellar youngsters, new study shows
The oldest stars in our Galaxy are also the busiest, moving more rapidly than their younger counterparts in and out of the disk of the Milky Way, according to new analysis carried out at the University of Birmingham. The findings…
Canadian astronomers determine Earth’s fingerprint
Canadian astronomers determine Earth’s fingerprint in hopes of finding habitable planets beyond the
The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures
New study suggests that the nightsides of hot Jupiters share clouds made of minerals
Streaks in aurora found to map features in earth’s radiation environment
A special kind of streaked aurora has been found to track disturbances in near-Earth space from the ground. Known as structured diffuse aurora, it was recently discovered, with the help of NASA spacecraft and instruments, that these faint lights in…
Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision
UMD-led team re-examined data from a 2016 gamma-ray burst and found a signature that perfectly match
Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision
UMD-led team re-examined data from a 2016 gamma-ray burst and found a signature that perfectly match
Astrophysicists link brightening of pulsar wind nebula to pulsar spin-down rate transition
Astrophysicists have discovered that the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) surrounding the famous pulsar B0540-69 brightened gradually after the pulsar experienced a sudden spin-down rate transition (SRT). This discovery, made by a group of astrophysicists led by GE Mingyu and LU…
Historical gathering: International meeting of the discoverers of chemical elements
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt (GSI), the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz are the organizers of this year’s TAN conference. There are currently 118 elements listed in the periodic table. 92 of them occur naturally…
Study models new method to accelerate nanoparticles
In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and the Missouri University of Science and Technology modeled a method to manipulate nanoparticles as an alternative mode of propulsion for tiny spacecraft that require very small levels of thrust.…
Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA’s Fermi
If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That’s how NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen our neighbor in space for the past decade. Gamma-ray observations are not sensitive…
Best of both worlds: Asteroids and massive mergers
University of Arizona researchers are using the Catalina Sky Survey’s near-Earth object telescopes t
How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to our Sun. Knowing the rate that these potentially…