Galaxy from the 'teenage' universe reveals its water map for the 1st time By Robert Lea published 9 August 23 A galaxy that existed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang has revealed the distribution of its water content for the first time.
The James Webb Space Telescope spotlights Einstein's genius. A fellow Holocaust survivor remembers him as a friend By Elizabeth Howell published 5 August 23 Albert Einstein once mentored fellow Holocaust survivor, Werner Salinger. Decades later, Salinger reminisces as Einstein's galactic theories come to light.
A Jupiter-size exoplanet formed around a tiny star. Astronomers aren't sure how By Robert Lea published 4 August 23 Astronomers are surprised by a metal-rich, massive planet orbiting a tiny star because gas giants aren't supposed to be able to form around such diminutive red dwarf stars.
Weird cosmic object identified as the remains of an exploded dead star By Robert Lea published 3 August 23 A distant cosmic object that has puzzled astronomers since 2005 has turned out to be the remains of a dying star that lost its outer layers in a massive supernova explosion.
James Webb Space Telescope captures vibrant details of the Milky Way's galactic neighbor (photo) By Robert Lea published 2 August 23 A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Milky Way's neighbor, NGC 6822, glowing green and gold while punctuated by bright red and blue stars, revealing its lack of metal.
AI is helping scientists reveal star ages. Here's how By Keith Cooper published 2 August 23 Trained on a neural network on 6,000 stars, the EAGLES algorithm will be used on surveys of millions more.
Black hole jet surprises scientists with 'peculiar' radio signal By Robert Lea published 2 August 23 For the first time, astronomers have spotted small-scale super-fast changes in a jet of super-energetic plasma jet blasting out from a small black hole.
Stars with superpowered magnetic fields could narrow the search for alien life By Robert Lea published 31 July 23 With unusually powerful magnetic fields, these stars seem to get a boost when their cores start to drift apart. Thus, they may not be the ideal hosts for habitable exoplanets.
Extremely distant galaxy reveals stories of stars from their cradles to their graves By Robert Lea published 28 July 23 Located 13.2 billion light years away, a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang is home to one of the most distant sites of star birth, and death, ever seen.
Listen to the sound of 3 stars playing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' (video) By Robert Lea published 27 July 23 Scientists measured the innate "twinkling" of three stars as waves of energy traveled from their cores to their surfaces. Then, the team set their findings to a familiar and apt tune.
Dark energy camera reveals galaxies caught in a cosmic 'tug of war' (photo) By Robert Lea published 27 July 23 Haley's Coronet is at war with its neighboring dwarf galaxy, and it's a gravitational struggle the latter is bound to lose.
Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms revealed in stunning detail by chemical mapping By Robert Lea published 26 July 23 "It has the potential to fully transform our view of the galaxy."
Ancient star that crashed hot young star party could solve solar system mystery By Robert Lea published 26 July 23 The serendipitous discovery of an ancient star crashing through a gathering of young, hot stars could help explain the mysterious abundance of isotopes that existed in the early solar system.
Stunning image reveals 1st detection of gas giants being born around a young star (photo) By Robert Lea published 25 July 23 The birth secrets of gas giant planets like Jupiter could be revealed by a stunning cosmic phoenix comprised of clumps of gas gathering around a young star.
A cosmic chameleon reveals its true colors in stunning infrared image (photo) By Samantha Mathewson published 24 July 23 A cosmic chameleon shows off its bright colors in a new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Unusual galaxy cluster is an island of tranquility in the chaotic early universe By Robert Lea published 24 July 23 Seen by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this peaceful galaxy cluster existed when the universe was just 5.8 billion years old and brimming with chaos.
Massive galaxy with no dark matter is a cosmic puzzle By Robert Lea published 23 July 23 Astronomers have discovered a massive galaxy that does not seem to contain dark matter, a cosmic puzzle that could challenge theories surrounding the evolution of the universe.
The Milky Way sparkles like fireworks in this desert view of our galaxy (photo) By Miguel Claro published 22 July 23 Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured an incredible panoramic image of the Milky Way from the Lut (Dasht-e Lut) desert in Iran.
Strange two-faced dying star 'Janus' baffles scientists in cosmic oddity By Monisha Ravisetti published 20 July 23 While routinely scanning the sky for the burnt-out remnants of dying stars, scientists stumbled upon a strange cosmic signal.
Bizarre 'slow' neutron star challenges our theories about dead stars By Robert Lea published 19 July 23 Astronomers have observed a 'slow' magnetar releasing bursts of radio waves every 22 minutes. The strange neutron star could change our perception of these extreme stellar corpses.