This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Quartz, also known as silica, exists everywhere: in beach sands,…
Category: Astronomy
Sensitive Instruments to Explore Metal-Rich Asteroid
NASA’s space mission to the asteroid Psyche—located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—will help us better understand our own Earth. DTU supplies instruments that can measure and map…
Rare Lenses, Cluster Cores and Unforeseen Science in Latest Gaia Data Release
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor has surpassed its planned potential to reveal half a…
Ionic Crystal Generates Molecular Ions upon Positron Irradiation
Positron―surface interactions generate positive molecular ions via formation of positronic compounds, opening doors to generating novel molecular ions. Positron, the antiparticle of electron, has the same mass and charge as…
Keeping Beds in the Goldilocks Zone
For Mark Aramli, the bed was a battlefield. He liked the bed a little cool, while his partner liked to stay warm under the covers. The constant fight over the…
First-ever Afterglow of Huge Planetary Collision in Outer Space
Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away from the collision and will…
Plot Thickens in Hunt for Ninth Planet
Outer reaches of the solar system could harbor another – ninth planet—or evidence modifying laws of gravity. An artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer…
“Starquakes” Could Explain Mystery Signals
Receiver of the Arecibo Telescope, Puerto Rico. FRB data was provided by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China and the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, two of the…
Dazzling – and Fortunate – Story of Gold
New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth’s mantle. Artistic rendering of a large collision on the…
Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn
Intense flashes of light, not mass, during star formation, resolve the puzzle of impossible brightness. When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest…
