Astronomy

In a recent development, a group of international astronomers discovered a new ultra-hot exoplanet twice the size of Jupiter. The newly discovered planet is said to have an interesting characteristic atmosphere containing neutral iron. In an article published on August 25, detailed information about the recent discovery was provided on …

Astronomer Michael Brown led the campaign that controversially demoted Pluto in 2006 from the ninth planet in our solar system to just one of its many dwarf planets. Now he hopes to fill the void he has created with what he predicts will be the discovery of a “Planet 9” …

This photo, provided by the Korea Institute of Astronomy and Space Science, shows K-DRIFT, its newly developed telescope. DAEJEON, September 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Astronomy and Space Sciences (KASI) has developed an astronomical telescope that can observe ultra-low surface-light (LSB) celestial objects thousands of times darker …

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ground-based telescopes, astronomers discovered five companions in transit near the burning mass limit of hydrogen in close orbits around the stars of the main sequence TOI-148, TOI-587, TOI-681, TOI-746 and TOI-1213. Artist’s impression of objects resembling brown dwarfs around TOI-148, …

ALEXANDRIE, Virginia, August 24, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Immerse yourself in the world of astronomy with Sky Tonight ™, a new stargazing app from Vito Technology, the creators of Star walk! Based on over a decade of experience and thousands of reviews from astronomers around the world, Heaven tonight …

Detected in 2019, comet Borisov was the first known interstellar comet to cross … [+] our solar system NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA) Are we living in a cosmic melting pot? A new study published today in the Monthly notices from the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that most of …

“What is happening to me is that I was unable to attend the 2021 astronomy camp in Hebron because the Israeli occupation refused to grant us permits,” lamented Jumana Koueider, an amateur astronomer of the Gaza Strip, in his statement to Al-Monitor. . Koueider explained that the camp, which was …

The first meeting of the Peterborough Astronomical Association (PAA) season takes place online via Zoom on Friday, September 3 starting at 6 p.m., and community members are invited to tune in. The format includes beginner’s astronomy lessons, a main presentation, and a question-and-answer period. This month’s beginner astronomy course is …

OTTAWA – Gary Boyle was struck by the stars from an early age. “Living on the top floor of a triplex in Verdun, a suburb of Montreal, the night sky was my theater. At the age of eight, he learned about the constellations by looking at the flyer of a …

The College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) rooftop observation deck, at the entrance to the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is currently under construction and expanded to accommodate the addition six new telescopes. With a seventh telescope on the way later this fall, funded by a satellite tracking …

In the 1970s, astronomers identified something straight out of a childhood dream: a literal shooting star. Next, astronomers observed the star LP 40−365 come out of our galaxy like a home run. Now a new team say they took another look at the star and found its turnover rate. This …

Scientists at Western Sydney University and CSIRO have found dancing ghosts deep in the cosmos as part of the first deep sky search using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. Winds from two active supermassive black holes at a distance of about a billion light years produce …

“At noon, the light figure is most complete in a single day,” says Wong. “When the sun is highest in the sky during the summer solstice, a complete and pure circle of light lines up with a circle inscribed on the sidewalk of the plaza.” Science and the stars were …

Astronomers saw the light behind a black hole for the first time. The black hole warped light from X-ray explosions on its far side, bending the light toward Earth. It further confirms Albert Einstein’s theory that massive objects like black holes distort space-time. Loading Something is loading. For the first …

David Bumgartner writes about connecting with a cousin with similar interests. This article was written by David Baumgartner as part of a local astronomy series. Few years ago when i was spending time in the air force my mom shed some light on something that had probably weighed on her …

Just south of its landing site, the Perseverance rover now sits in an area described as “the rough fractured crater floor.” The rover prepares to take its first core sample from light-colored “cobblestones” like those visible in the lower left and throughout the region. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU …

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration imaged a jet at the core of the nearby Centaurus A radio galaxy and identified the location of the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole relative to its resolved jet core. Distance scales discovered in the Centaur A jet of the extended radio …

A deep, dense and cold space offers a range of mysteries which, by unraveling, explain the existence of life, the origin and the history of evolution. The stars are one of the most fascinating and brilliant elements in dark space. For a very long time, astronomers accepted the idea that …

[ad_1] Search box title These early snapshots demonstrate Hubble’s return to full science operations, after a computer anomaly was corrected aboard the spacecraft. Normal scientific observations resumed on July 17 at 1:18 p.m. EDT. Early targets include globular star clusters in other galaxies and auroras on the giant planet Jupiter, …

[ad_1] The years-long struggle to stop construction of the thirty-meter telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has exposed the fractured relationships between researchers and the communities they rely on for science. Why is this important: At nearly 14,000 feet, the dormant volcano is a coveted location for astronomers looking to …

[ad_1] SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit around Earth on January 6, 2020.Credit: Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto / Getty Aerospace companies have launched around 2,000 Internet satellites into orbit around Earth over the past 2 years, nearly doubling the number of active satellites. This has raised concerns …

[ad_1] China has certainly made its growing power and influence felt in recent years, especially in space exploration and science. In the past decade alone, China has deployed the three space stations with their Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”), unveiled the Long March 5 heavy launch rocket and sent robotic missions to …

[ad_1] The local Santa Clarita Group Astronomy Club held its first All-Star Party in over a year at Vasquez Rocks on Saturday. The club, which suspended quarterly holidays due to the pandemic, returned on Saturday with a workshop to help new telescope owners use their equipment. Club organizers also brought …

[ad_1] In the first and second part of this three-part article series, Dr Parameswaran Ajith demystified gravitational waves and explained how scientists study them. He went on to illustrate how their study can enrich our understanding of the universe. “I think these only show the tip of the iceberg! Gravitational …

[ad_1] People will be able to purchase tickets for the Shanghai Astronomical Museum, which will soon open from Monday. The museum, known as the largest in the world, will officially open its doors to the public on July 18. Visiting hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday. …

[ad_1] Fans of astronomy; YOU are invited to a free conference on telescopes and technology to see the stars Phoenix, AZ – The Phoenix Astronomical Society PASAZ.ORG is proud to announce that Mr. Mark Johnston will be our guest speaker on July 15, 2021 at our ZOOM meeting starting at …

[ad_1] A hypernova, 10 times more powerful than a supernova explosion, may have given rise to an unusual star in our galaxy. ESO / SpaceEngine / L. Calçada Thanks to a group of astronomer-detectives in Australia, today you can add this crazy phrase to your lexicon: Magneto-rotational hypernova. Do you …

[ad_1] Queen Elizabeth consults personal astronomer over “scientific concerns”: report Queen Elizabeth’s staff of a thousand men has an astronomer whom she consults on “scientific matters”, as well as a person to “wear” her shoes and even someone to taste her food for safety reasons. The position of royal astronomer …

[ad_1] Jupiter may have formed in a shadow that kept the planet’s birthplace cooler than Pluto. The freezing temperature could explain the unusual abundance of certain gases in the giant world, suggests a new study. Jupiter is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, which were the most common elements in …

[ad_1] Supernova 2018zd is the first example of an entirely new type of supernova. Joseph Depasquale, STScI Just when you think we know a lot about the stars above, something comes along that lights them up even more. Literally, in this case, thanks to the observation of a whole new …

[ad_1] One of the best things about being an astronomer is being able to discover something new about the universe. In fact, maybe the only better thing is to find out twice. And that’s exactly what my colleagues and I did, making two separate observations, just ten days apart, of …

[ad_1] Since the first direct observation of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO in 2015, which won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017, GW Science has seen significant and rapid advances. In the context of the recent major discovery of a new source of gravitational waves (fusion of neutron stars …

[ad_1] The long double line of scarlet-robed doctors who ‘treated’ at this year’s brilliant commemoration in Oxford, from Wadham, the Vice Chancellor’s College, to the Sheldonian Theater was, from a feminist point of view, less interesting because of its inclusion of the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord …

[ad_1] Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, the largest comet in history, was discovered by Pedro Bernardinelli who received his doctorate. in Astrophysics from Penn in 2021 and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Gary Bernstein. (Photo by the Department of Physics and Astronomy) Two Penn astronomers discovered largest comet in history that will reach …

[ad_1] Two years later, LIGO detected the collision of two neutron stars – the burnt remnants of stars more massive than the sun but not large enough to collapse into black holes. Such collisions create most of the gold and silver in the universe. With the help of VIRGO, a …

[ad_1] There is a surprising guest in the solar system: it is the giant comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein 2014 UN271, which has just been discovered by astronomers at Penn State University in images collected between 2014 and 2018 by the Chilean Dark Telescope. Energy Survey. The diameter of this star is estimated …

[ad_1] WINNIPEG – The pandemic has changed the way Canadians grieve and deal with the deaths of loved ones. George Bradley knows this firsthand – his mother is among more than 1,100 Manitobans who have died with COVID-19. In October 2020, George recorded a video of his mother Elsie for …

[ad_1] Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein takes 5.5 million years to complete its orbit. (Image credit: NASA JPL) A new visitor passes through the solar system: a never-before-seen comet that comes from the Oort Cloud. The alien object was just named a comet on Wednesday (June 23), just a week after astronomers first …

[ad_1] The Associated PressJune 25, 2021 4:26:03 PM IST Do you have the impression of being watched? It can come from a lot further than you might think. Astronomers used a technique used to search for life on other planets and turned it around. So instead of looking to see …

[ad_1] Humanity’s space exploration missions and advanced telescopes have discovered so many exoplanets, some of which are very similar to Earth. These star systems where planets flourish whose temperature and atmosphere are similar to those of Earth, are ruled by red dwarf stars – weaker than the sun – which …

[ad_1] Angel Investor Network FAAD Network led an angel funding round in Navars Edutech Pvt Ltd, a student-oriented astronomy and space technology company. Sravan Varma Datla, co-founder and CEO of Navars Edutech, told VCCircle that the company will use the funds primarily for marketing and expansion in India and global …

[ad_1] The University of Maine’s Hudson Museum, Zillman Museum of Art, Page Farm and Home Museum, and Versant Power Astronomy Center have reopened to the public with updated health and safety guidelines in place; Face coverings are mandatory inside all university and museum buildings, regardless of vaccination status. The public …

[ad_1] PICTURE: View of Dr Luis F. Rodriguez After Credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomical Observatory (NRAO) awarded the 2021 Karl G. Jansky Lecture Fellowship to Professor Luis F. Rodriguez of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). The Jansky Lectureship is …

[ad_1] It’s “officially” summer, “astronomically. Meteorologically, it’s June 1stst. In reality, it doesn’t matter much. The difference between spring and summer from an astronomical point of view is in March just at the spring equinox (March 20e, roughly), that was when the sun was pointing directly at the equator, so …

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of New Unexplained Astronomical Phenomena, a team of astronomers led by Dr Leigh Smith from Cambridge found a star 100 times larger than our sun that almost disappears from the sky every few decades. They also don’t know why he’s doing it. The star, called …

[ad_1] Northern Sky by Deane MorrisonJune 19 – July 2, 2021 Summer is officially settling in. The summer solstice arrives at 10:52 p.m. on Sunday, June 20. At this time, the sun reaches a point above the Tropic of Cancer and completes its annual northward journey. Then he reverses and …

[ad_1] In a new study, astronomers used data from NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope to calculate a more precise distance to an ultra-diffuse galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2 for short). The new measure reinforces previous claims that DF2 lacks dark matter, the invisible glue that makes up most of …

[ad_1] Using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers detected a galactic-scale supermassive wind driven by a black hole in the HSC J124353.93 + 010038.5 (J1243 + 0100 for short), a low-light quasar seen as it was 13.1 billion years ago. Artist’s impression of a galactic wind driven …

[ad_1] Last week I told the story of my first sight of the M13 globular cluster in a large telescope that I had built myself. I watched countless collapsed stars in a single telescope field. M13 is an explosion of starlight so dense that it is difficult to resolve stars …

[ad_1] Astronomers have made photometric and spectroscopic observations of B2 1420 + 32, a blazar with a collection of “look change” features. Sloan Digital Sky Survey archival image from March 2004 (left) and survey image of B2 1420 + 32 taken by Mishra et al. in January 2020 using ASAS-SN …

[ad_1] Rutgers’ unexpected discovery challenges current theories about the growth of galaxies and may improve our understanding of the universe. Credit: Rutgers University-New Brunswick A surprising discovery calls into question current theories about the growth of galaxies. Three dozen distant dwarf galaxies have experienced a simultaneous “baby boom” of new …

[ad_1] Astronomers have spotted a giant star “blinking” towards the center of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away. An international team of astronomers observed the star VVV-WIT-08, whose luminosity decreased by a factor of 30 so that it almost disappeared from the sky. While many stars change …

[ad_1] London, June 11 An international team of astronomers has spotted a giant star “blinking” towards the center of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away. The star, VVV-WIT-08, dimmed by a factor of 30, so that it almost disappeared from the sky. While many stars change in …

[ad_1] Studying fertility in space can be difficult. At the moment, astronauts do not spend several years in a microgravity environment. But someday our descendants will travel to other planets – and, eventually, perhaps even deeper into the cosmos. Building a long-term space colony will require researchers to have a …

[ad_1] Astronomers have spotted a giant blinking star, 100 times the size of the sun, lurking near the heart of the Milky Way. Observations from the telescope revealed that within a few hundred days, the huge star, which is over 25,000 light years away, faded 97% and then slowly returned …

[ad_1] NASA has released another fascinating photograph of two swirling galaxies merging into a galactic system 140 million light years from Earth. As these two galaxies become one, shock waves pass through them both and trigger waves of new star formation, the US space agency explains. Some of these stars …

[ad_1] Search box title Jupiter may be the raw planet in our solar system because it is the most massive planet. But it is actually a runt compared to most of the giant planets found around other stars. These alien worlds, called super-Jupiters, weigh up to 13 times the mass …

[ad_1] In 1990, no planet outside of our solar system was known. Now not only do we know thousands, but we also have an almost embarrassing number of ways to find them. You may have heard of transit mode, where a planet passes in front of its star, and we …

[ad_1] NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope produced an exceptional image of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4680. This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4680. The color image was taken from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum with the Hubble Wide Field …

[ad_1] It’s close to freezing on one of those fabulously clear Scottish nights. I am in pitch darkness in a back garden of the Midlothian staring at a cluster of stars that are over 13 billion years old, which are almost as old as the universe itself. My vision for …

[ad_1] Who can forget the incredible partial solar eclipse spectacle seen locally on August 21, 2017, as part of the Great American Total Solar Eclipse across the United States? Here in Rhode Island, 65% of the solar disk was covered by the moon at most. My wife Tina and I …

[ad_1] In this series of articles, we sit down with some of the keynote speakers from the 238th AAS Meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here, and read our other interviews here! Astronomy is often seen as a …

[ad_1] Part of what makes scientists so enthusiastic is that the capabilities of the two spacecraft are very complementary. “We have such a different spatial resolution from our datasets,” says Filiberto. “DAVINCI + is going to be able to see these ancient rocks with a higher resolution than VERITAS, but …

[ad_1] The world’s first commercial astronomy mission, Twinkle, is gaining traction among exoplanet researchers as it moves towards launch in 2024 with funding secured to begin construction of the satellite early in the year. next year. In 2014, when Marcell Tessenyi, a postdoctoral fellow in astronomy at University College London …

[ad_1] Chryssa Kouveliotou, Professor and Chair of the Physics Department at George Washington University, United States. Credit: shawprize.org A Greek astronomer shared the prestigious Shaw Prize for Astronomy 2021 for his contribution to our understanding of magnetars. The prize was shared equally by Victoria M. Kaspi, professor of physics and …

[ad_1] This is the first time humans have sent probes to the planet since the early 1990s. The missions, known as DAVINCI + and VERITAS, are expected to launch in the late 2020s. Venus made the news in 2020, when scientists announced the discovery of a possible sign of life …

[ad_1] Well-known author and motivational speaker, Dr Sudha Murty will be giving an online talk as part of Symbiosis’ Golden Jubilee Lecture Series to celebrate her Golden Jubilee. With the need for positivity having become even more critical given the current pandemic situation, the lecture series aims to help students, …

[ad_1] One of the cameras on the Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument took this photo of the Ingenuity helicopter on April 9. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter landed safely after wobbling, suffering from power surges and speed fluctuations on its sixth flight to Mars. The helicopter took …

[ad_1] Southwestern Oregon Community College closes the 2020-2021 Physics and Astronomy Lecture Series by welcoming Dr. Holly Gilbert, Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research High Altitude Observatory. In his talk “A New Era in Solar Observations” Gilbert will discuss some of the current solar and heliospheric observations (both …

[ad_1] Are you a little crazy for being locked up this year? Did you save your money for a pleasant long trip? Well, a company is selling tickets for a spacewalk this fall. And it will only cost around $ 250,000. On May 22, Virgin Galactic successfully tested its first …

[ad_1] They appear on photographic plates from the 1950s, but seem to have mysteriously disappeared. These are the stars that the Vasco project is looking for. He identified 800 candidates. Behind one of them may be a rare natural phenomenon or … an advanced alien civilization. You will be interested …

[ad_1] mm mm. Yes. A supermassive black hole sits at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is a cosmic phenomenon four million times the size of the sun, creating an area of ​​space with extreme gravitational and magnetic events, meaning the area is obscured to the bare …

[ad_1] The origin of life is one of the great unanswered questions of science. One piece of this puzzle is that life on Earth began 4.5 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the solar system was formed, and involved many critical molecular components. How did all …

[ad_1] A generous dusting of galaxies against an inky black sky is captured by the four-meter Victor M. Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Aside from a handful of prominent stars, recognizable by their diffraction tips, every object seen here is a galaxy, from the faintest …

[ad_1] Managing the COVID-19 pandemic is leading governments around the world to walk a delicate tightrope between controlling the spread of the virus and the interactions needed to support daily life. Savings and national budgets were under tremendous pressure. This means that budgets are reduced. And one area that is …

[ad_1] Doha, qatar, May 26, 2021 / PRNewswire / – The Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC) has launched exclusive astro-tourism experiences in partnership with premium tour operator Gulf Adventures, enhancing astronomers’ travel plans when borders reopen. Visitors can enjoy a whole space under the breathtaking desert night sky. With excellent …

[ad_1] This ad has been adapted from a version published by the American Astronomical Society. Read the original story. CU Boulder astrophysicist Ann-Marie Madigan has won a prestigious award in recognition of her research exploring the dynamics of objects in space – from stars circling black holes to icy dwarf …

[ad_1] Image: NASA / JPL – Caltech / University of Arizona. These layered hills, seen in this false color image of part of Arabia Terra on Mars, may have a watery origin. Arabia Terra is a mountainous region in the northern hemisphere of Mars, dating from the Noachian geological era …

[ad_1] “We would never know what hit us.” Collateral damage If you ever have a bad day, remember that we could suddenly be squeezed out by the science experiment of an advanced alien civilization gone bad. This is according to former Harvard astronomy president Avi Loeb – known for insisting …

[ad_1] The search for life on Mars continues. But rather than chasing modern life, Perseverance, NASA’s latest Martian rover, will soon start looking for signs of former life having once existed in the now dry and barren world. And while most researchers agree that the surface of Mars is no …