The key stages of the binary formation mechanism highlighted in the cartoon as snapshots from their moment in the simulations. The first panel shows the “mini”-discs around the isolated black…
Category: Planetary Science
First ultraviolet data collected by European Space Agency’s JUICE mission
The SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, JUICE, has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the spacecraft’s April 14 launch. This segment of JUICE-UVS data shows…
Astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes
The NANOGrav team used a number of radio telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, to listen to pulsars for 15 years. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, CC BY An international…
Sun releases strong solar flare
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare—as seen in the bright flash on the top right area of the sun—on July 2, 2023. The image shows…
Collaborative research detects nanojets with machine learning algorithms
Northumbria PhD student Ramada Sukarmadji. Credit: Simon Veit-Wilson/Northumbria University A mystery that has baffled astronomers and physicists for decades is a step closer to being solved thanks to a collaboration…
Scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe
This undated photo provided by researchers in June 2023 shows the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico. This and several other telescopes around the world were used to observe the slow…
Europe’s space telescope launches to target universe’s dark mysteries
The Euclid spacecraft, pictured before being sent to Florida, will blast off on a mission to find out more about the ‘dark universe’ Europe’s Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday…
NASA Goddard acoustics chamber and US marine band turn up the volume
Col. Jason Fettig leads “The President’s Own” Marine Band in a performance inside the acoustic test chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 3. Credit:…
First ‘ghost particle’ image of Milky Way galaxy captured by scientists: Neutrinos detected by IceCube
An artist’s composition of the Milky Way seen with a neutrino lens (blue). Credit: IceCube Collaboration/U.S. National Science Foundation (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier) Our Milky Way galaxy…
Scientists find key evidence for existence of nanohertz gravitational waves
FAST helps find key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves with its high sensitivity. Credit: NAOC of CAS A group of Chinese scientists has recently found key evidence…
