A rare star system with six exoplanets has been discovered with an architecture unchanged for billions of years. Exoplanet – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) The star,…
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Want to get into stargazing? A professional astronomer explains where to start
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are few things more peaceful and relaxing than a night under the stars. Through the holidays, many people head away from the bright city lights…
New Project Will Take a Step Towards Answering Whether Gravity is Quantum
Scientists are developing an experiment to test whether gravity is quantum – one of the deepest questions about our universe. Gravity – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license)…
First pulsar detected in globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01
VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. Credit: McCarver et al., 2023. Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have discovered a millisecond pulsar…
A new way to characterize habitable planets
Dramatic plumes spray water ice and vapor from many locations along the famed “tiger stripes” near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are four prominent, approximately…
JWST sets a new record, sees newly forming stars in the Triangulum galaxy
Galaxy M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. JWST was used recently to observe sites in its southern arm where newly forming stars (YSOs) appear to lie. Our…
Curiosity captures a martian day, from dawn to dusk
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two black-and-white videos recorded on Nov. 8,…
Hubble Sights a Galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ Light
This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely energetic…
The Case of the Missing Phosphorus: Astronomers Find Life Ingredient at Galaxy’s Edges
An artist’s illustration of the Milky Way galactic plane, believed to span just over 100,000 light-years. The discovery of phosphorus, a critical ingredient of life on Earth, in a far-away…
Indian astronomers explore open cluster NGC 6940 with AstroSat
The spatial distribution, proper motion, and parallax distributions of the members of NGC 6940 and sample sources determined using the ML-MOC algorithm. Credit: Panthi and Vaidya, 2023 Using the AstroSat…
