News
Environment
Health
Future
Space
Feature Post
- Pieces
- Feature Post
- Art
- Great Pics
- Fossil Friday
- Design
- AstroPicture
- GeoPicture
- Did you know?
- Offbeat
More

No Result

View All Result

No Result

View All Result

No Result

View All Result

Home Category Space Telescopes

Telescopes

Neutron Stars Make Ant Hills Out of Mountains

Scientists peer back in time to find the birth of the first stars

Astronomy

Scientists peer back in time to find the birth of the first stars

by Paula Ferreira

Chaotic Young Star System Holds the Key to Planet Formation

Astronomy

Chaotic Young Star System Holds the Key to Planet Formation

These images, taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, show the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse during its unprecedented dimming, which happened in late 2019 and early 2020. The image on the far left, taken in January 2019, shows the star at its normal brightness, while the remaining images, from December 2019, January 2020 and March 2020, were all taken when the star’s brightness had noticeably dropped, especially in its southern region. The brightness returned to normal in April 2020. (ESO/M. Montargès et al)

Astronomy

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of Betelgeuse’s ‘Great Dimming’

Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away. An international team of astronomers observed the star, VVV-WIT-08, decreasing in brightness by a factor of 30, so that it nearly disappeared from the sky. While many stars change in brightness because they pulsate or are eclipsed by another star in a binary system, it's exceptionally rare for a star to become fainter over a period of several months and then brighten again. (Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge)

Astronomy

Blinking Giant Star is a Mystery at the Heart of the Milky Way

Galactic neighbourhoods have an influence on stellar nurseries

Astronomy

Galactic neighbourhoods have an influence on stellar nurseries

Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, providing a glimpse of distant galaxies and helping determine their 3D distribution in the cosmos.

Astronomy

Astronomers map over 100 million galaxies to crack dark matter and dark energy puzzle

Comets have a heavy metal atmosphere

Astronomy

Comets have a heavy metal atmosphere

Astronomers have discovered two pairs of quasars in the distant Universe, about 10 billion light-years from Earth. In each pair, the two quasars are separated by only about 10,000 light-years, making them closer together than any other double quasars found so far away. The proximity of the quasars in each pair suggests that they are located within two merging galaxies. Quasars are the intensely bright cores of distant galaxies, powered by the feeding frenzies of supermassive black holes. One of the distant double quasars is depicted in this illustration. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva

Astronomy

Double trouble! Astronomers discover distant quasar pairs

This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it. (SO/M. Kormesser)

Astronomy

Interstellar visitor 2I/Borisov is the most pristine comet ever observed

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole released in 2019, has today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. (EHT Collaboration)

Astronomy

Black Hole Seen Clearly in Historic New Direct Image

Jupiter’s Supersonic Stratospheric Winds Make it a Unique Beast

Astronomy

Jupiter’s Supersonic Stratospheric Winds Make it a Unique Beast

Artist’s Impression of GJ 1132 b

Astronomy

The Exoplanet that grew a second atmosphere

This artist’s impression shows how the distant quasar P172+18 and its radio jets may have looked. To date (early 2021), this is the most distant quasar with radio jets ever found and it was studied with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. It is so distant that light from it has travelled for about 13 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was only about 780 million years old. (ESO)

Astronomy

Astronomers have discovered the most distant radio signal ever

A Snapshot of Gliese 486b's journey around its parent star (Render Area)

Alien life

Nearby Super-Earth could be perfect for atmospheric investigation

Massive Black Hole Could Challenge Stellar Evolution Theories

Astronomy

Massive Black Hole Could Challenge Stellar Evolution Theories

This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. New research by Adrien Leleu and his colleagues with several telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has revealed that the system boasts six exoplanets and that all but the one closest to the star are locked in a rare rhythm as they move in their orbits. But while the orbital motion in this system is in harmony, the physical properties of the planets are more disorderly, with significant variations in density from planet to planet. This contrast challenges astronomers’ understanding of how planets form and evolve. This artist’s impression is based on the known physical parameters for the planets and the star seen, and uses a vast database of objects in the Universe. (ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org)

Astronomy

Astronomers discover an exoplanet system with rhythm

January 25, 2021

An artist’s view of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The TRAPPIST-1 star is home to the largest batch of roughly Earth-size planets ever found outside our solar system. An international study involving researchers from the Universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich now shows that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their composition (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Alien life

The Trappist-1 exoplanets could be worlds of water or rust

January 22, 2021

Space and Physics Developments to Look Forward to in 2021

Astronomy

Space and Physics Developments to Look Forward to in 2021

January 19, 2021

Astronomers witness the ‘death’ of a galaxy

Astronomy

Astronomers witness the ‘death’ of a galaxy

January 11, 2021

Baby universes branching off of our universe shortly after the Big Bang appear to us as black holes. (Kavli IPMU)

Astronomy

Primordial black holes could hide a multiverse of possibilities

January 6, 2021

Load More

© 2007-2019 ZME Science - Not exactly rocket science. All Rights Reserved.

No Result

View All Result

© 2007-2019 ZME Science - Not exactly rocket science. All Rights Reserved.