Death Becomes Her: The Catastrophic Stellar Explosion That Shook UGC 12295
Two teams of astronomers used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to study UGC 12295, a spiral galaxy in Pisces, following a supernova detected in 2015….
Two teams of astronomers used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to study UGC 12295, a spiral galaxy in Pisces, following a supernova detected in 2015….
A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Kazuhiro Nakazawa from Nagoya University/KMI and doctoral student Yuki Omiya at the Graduate School of Science has…
By combining the efforts of professional and citizen scientists, the study of cosmic cataclysms expands our understanding of the universe’s extraordinary phenomena. In an unprecedented…
So far, gravitational waves have been only detected by astrophysicists from binary systems – the fusion of either two black holes, two neutron stars, or…
Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other. In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores…
Last year, telescopes around the world registered the brightest cosmic explosion of all time. Astrophysicists can now explain what made it so dazzling. Few cosmic…
A “beautiful effect” predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) may provide an explanation for the perplexing initial sightings of polarized X-rays radiating from a magnetar –…
The Universe is a violent place where here even a star’s life can be cut short. This happens when a star finds itself in a…
SwRI scientist awarded JWST Cycle 2 observations of Enceladus A pair of scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) were members of a James Webb…
A string of lined-up galaxies in the early universe reveals clues – and questions – about the fundamental architecture of the universe. Using NASA’s James…
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a novel technique to boost the search for extraterrestrial life. This method distinguishes potential alien signals…
The universe is teeming with powerful supermassive black holes that spawn powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of extreme brightness in the vastness of…
Astronomers have detected a debris cloud that could indicate a ‘sibling’ planet sharing the orbit of an existing planet around a distant star, using the…
New research led by Newcastle University and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed that supermassive black holes obscured by…
During the final year of NASA’s Mars InSight mission, a large marsquake allowed researchers from ETH Zurich to determine the global thickness and density of…
Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered unusually strong magnetic fields in some stars, challenging current star evolution models. This potentially impacts the habitability…
How would the Earth look like to an extraterrestrial civilization situated light years away? A collaborative study conducted by a group of scientists from the…
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have identified the sites of star formation and a possible site of star death in a galaxy…