How close can a rocky exoplanet be to a star and still sustain water and life? Artist impression showing the exoplanet LP 890-9c’s potential evolution from a hot Earth to…
Category: Astronomy
Phosphate, Key Building Block of Life, Found on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
An international team including a University of Washington scientist has found that the water on one of Saturn’s moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team led…
NASA’s Webb Proves Galaxies Transformed the Early Universe
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque – energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But the gas had become completely transparent 1 billion years after…
Galaxies Deep Dive, Leave Fiery Tail Behind
A group of galaxies is plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an enormous tail of superheated gas. Coma cluster of galaxies. Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/SAO/Univ. of…
Black Hole Shadow and Powerful Jet Seen Together
This is what the black hole’s shadow looks like when it is cast on the powerful relativistic jet emanating from the center of the radio galaxy. This is the shadow…
DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly 2 Million Cosmic Objects
The universe is big, and it’s getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of our universe, scientists are using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)…
NASA’s New Detectors – Better Views of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars — all while being…
Supermassive Black Hole Waves ‘Right Around the Corner’
New study further narrows the search for elusive pairs of supermassive monster black holes. Although astrophysicists have never sensed supermassive black hole binary systems, a galaxy-sized detector composed of dead…
Planet Orbiting 2 Stars Discovered Using New Technique
An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new type of planet that orbits two stars – what is known as a…
Extremely Warped Supernova Discovered – Technology Org
Astronomers have been observing the gravitational bending of light since 1919, just a few years after Einstein developed the theory, but the transient nature of supernovae makes events such as…
