An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky in the early morning hours of Monday, April 24, 2023, near Washtucna, Wash. A solar…
Category: Planetary Science
Asteroid named after Portuguese astrophysicist
Image of asteroid 243 Ida, taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Despite being about ten times larger than asteroid 32599 Pedromachado, 243 Ida is also found in the Asteroid Belt. Credit:…
Webb detects most distant active supermassive black hole to date
The graphic shows the redshift of one active supermassive black hole. At top right is the complete NIRCam image of the field, which has an uneven white outline and is…
Light supergiant reveals a missing evolutionary stage
Artist’s impression of the discovered massive binary system consisting of a stripped star in the background and a Be star in the foreground. Although the stripped star appears bigger, it…
Quasar disks could host black hole collision events
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…
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…
