The ULLYSES program studied two types of young stars: super-hot, massive, blue stars and cooler, redder, less massive stars than our Sun. The top panel is a Hubble Space Telescope…
Category: Space
A flight out of this world
Rovers have roamed its alien terrain, scooping up rock samples and searching for signs of microbial life in basins once awash with water. An illustration of the Mars Aerial Ground…
Research unlocks supernova stardust secrets
Cassiopeia A is a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO Curtin University-led research has discovered a rare dust particle trapped in an ancient extra-terrestrial meteorite that was formed…
Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars
This image, taken by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), shows two supermassive black holes, which appear as the blobs with red strips. The black holes are in the center…
‘Mother of Dragons’ Comet Visible in the Night Sky
Comets are ancient cosmic icebergs. They are roughly 4.6 billion years old and formed at the same time as the Sun, Earth and the other planets. Gravitational interactions fling them towards…
Fast Radio Bursts – Technology Org
No one knows what causes them, but they may help us map the universe down to its furthest reaches fast radio bursts. Bright flashes travelling across galaxies, their origins shrouded…
Tiniest ‘starquakes’ ever detected
Artist ‘s impression of sound waves (p modes), with different frequencies, traveling across the inner layers of a star. Credit: Tania Cunha (Planetário do Porto—Centro Ciência Viva)/Instituto de Astrofísica e…
Signs of life detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons
The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. A new lab-based study led by the University of…
Planet cannibalism is common, says cosmic ‘twin study’
Credit: Intouchable / Openverse How stable are planetary systems? Will Earth and its seven siblings always continue in their steady celestial paths, or might we one day be randomly ejected…
