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According to a new study from the University of California, Irvine University, white dwarfs are the life of planets that have produced a warmer surface environment…
Astronomer using Immersed lattice infrared flash device (IGRINS) Gemini South Telescope devices looked at Wasp-121B, one of the most widely studied Ultra Hot Jupiter. The artist's…
Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that at a time when the Universe was half its current age, a single galaxy behind…
Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Keck Telescope, astronomers detected a binary star system in the S star cluster near Sagittarius A*,…
According to a team of astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam, the XX triangular star, a bright K0 giant star…
For the first time ever, scientists have successfully captured images of stars outside our galaxy. The images show a massive red supergiant star named WOH G64,…
used by astronomers ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has taken an enlarged image of the dusty red supergiant star WOH G64. This image, taken by…
Left: Image of star WOH G64 taken with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile. Right: Artist’s impression of the star ESO/K. Onaka et al., L.…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long events detected from beyond the Milky Way. The radiative properties of FRBs favor magnetars as their source, as evidenced by…
The neutron star in X-ray binary system 4U 1820-30 rotates 716 times per second, the fastest rate ever observed, according to an analysis of data collected…
NGC1386 is a spiral galaxy located 53 million light years away in the constellation Eridanus. This image of NGC 1386 combines data from VST and ALMA.…
V404 Cygnus, an X-ray binary star that hosts a low-mass black hole, has a wide echelon with a tertiary companion at least 3,500 astronomical units (AU)…
Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha Orionis or Alpha Ori, is the second closest red supergiant star to Earth. From November 2019 to March 2020, the star…
Named after the otherworldly sounds these tree frogs make, Boufis The rainforests of Madagascar are expanses, some of which remind us of the sounds of technological…
Boophis pikei, a new species of frog from MadagascarMiguel Vances (CC-BY-SA 4.0) Deep in the forests of Madagascar, researchers have discovered seven new species of frogs…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk into a sweaty, dusty club on a desert planet from Star Wars? What would be…
Artist’s impression of Barnard’s b, a planet orbiting around Barnard’s starESO/M.Kornmesser Barnard’s star, one of the Sun’s closest neighbors, appears to have at least one planet…
An exoplanet with at least half the mass of Venus orbits Barnard's Star, the closest single star to the Sun, once every 3.15 days. Artist's impression…
The movement of bubbling gas on the surface of R DoradusALMA (ESO/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/NRAO)/W. Breming A giant bubble of hot gas more than 75…
Star cluster NGC 1333 contains many brown dwarfsNASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS Astronomers have discovered six new worlds that look like planets but formed like stars. These so-called “rogue worlds”…
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Despite recent progress, the question of what controls the star formation efficiency in galaxies remains one of the most debated in astrophysics. According to the dominant…
a About 10 minutes into the latest preview build of Ubisoft’s upcoming open-world adventure Star Wars Outlaws, protagonist Kay Vess enters Milogana, a densely populated, dilapidated…
Akinbostansi/Getty Images No turning point in the history of the universe surpasses the birth of the first stars. As stars flickered into existence some 200 to…
Serpens Nebula: A row of jets appears as red streaks in the upper left cornerNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI) Astronomers have…
Astronomers Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Mid-infrared measuring instrument (mm) NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope A twin disk and parallel jets were discovered in the young…
At an estimated distance of 140 parsecs (457 light years), the L-type subdwarf star CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36 for short) has a total velocity of at least…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope discovered a giant asteroid impact around Beta Gactris, the second brightest star in the constellation Scorpio. Chen othersBeta…
debtFor nearly 15 years, I used to fly to Los Angeles every June to cover E3, the massive video game conference where major games and consoles…
Neutron stars typically spin quickly, taking just a few seconds or even a fraction of a second to complete one revolution around their axis, but one…
Astronomers Multi-unit spectroscopic probe The (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has imaged Propride, an externally illuminated protoplanetary disk around a young…
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered very old stars in the Milky Way’s halo, a cloud of stars that covers the entire disk…
The night sky is a treasure trove of celestial wonders, and sometimes incredible events happen when no one is watching. Astronomers were thrilled when a satellite…
Brown dwarfs, often referred to as “failed stars,” are a fascinating type of celestial object. They are too large to be considered planets, yet too small…
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers discovered a nearby binary system of massive stars orbiting a dormant star-derived black hole over a period of 11.6…
Astronomers using NASA/ESA/CSA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a typical extremely metal-poor, star-forming, blue, compact dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, I. Zwicki 18…
Alex Jamison’s veganism gained worldwide recognition after starring in the 2004 film Supersize Me, an influential Academy Award-nominated documentary exploring our fast food culture.Originally working as…
In a new paper in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, leading computer scientists from around the world review recent advances in machine learning that are converging…
Astronomers have known for decades that the powerful light emitted by massive stars can disrupt planetary disks of dust and gas that swirl around young stars,…
White dwarfs, known as “man-eating stars” by scientists, are not just a concept from a Stephen King novel set in space. They are born through the…