AR Scorpii: White dwarf punishes red dwarf with electron beams at relativistic speeds
Astronomers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope and other telescopes both on the ground and in space, and discovered a new…
Astronomy
ASASSN-15lh: superluminous event explained by rotating black hole “swallowing” star
This artist print shows a Sun-like star near a fast-rotating supermassive black hole with a mass about 100 million times…
Dancing Ghosts: A New, Deeper Sky Scan Offers Surprises to Astronomers
Examining recent telescope data, we saw two ghosts dancing in the depths of the cosmos. We had never seen…
Perseid meteors are already beginning to fall in a display that promises to dazzle skywatchers
The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the evening of Aug. 12, just four days after the new moon on…
Cosmic rarity: researchers identify the most massive star
STAR RMC 136a1 RMC 136a1 or R136a1 is a Wolf-Rayet star at the center of the star cluster RCM 136,…
Nearby Dusty Galaxy Shines in Hubble Photo
A dusty galaxy neighboring our Milky Way galaxy glows bright and bright in an eye-catching new Hubble Space Telescope photo….
Origin of near earth asteroids
Near earth asteroids are asteroids that have been pushed by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow…
NASA seeks volunteers to undergo simulated Mars conditions
The tests will help investigate methods and technology to solve and avoid potential problems on manned missions to Mars. NASA…
How exoplanets are named?
Whenever astronomers discover any new celestial body then it is named according to some defined and specified rules. These rules…
How we detect exoplanets?
Exoplanets are typically close to a star and since a star is much more luminous than the planet, direct detection…