STARS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT
Understanding the Lifecycles of Stars Stars are a fundamental building block in the universe and dominate the night sky seen…
Astrophysics
Toi-1807b, the planet where a year lasts only 13 hours
Toi-1807b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2020 and is one of the few known planets that completes an orbit…
This is the scheme of our supermassive black hole jet
This schematic is based on multiwavelength observations of a suspected jet from the massive black hole at the center of…
Light distortion can tell the nature of dark energy
Cosmology is an area associated with astronomy that studies the origin, evolution and end of the universe. But because these…
New photos reveal disks of dust around massive stars
While investigating young , massive stars for planetary formation processes, an international team of astronomers discovered a possible young planet,…
Rare 5-planet alignment comes into better view this week
A rare parade of planets is coming into better view in the second half of June, and even the moon…
Cosmic dawn ended 200 million years later than cosmologists thought
Using the light from 67 extremely distant quasars, astronomers have calculated that cosmic dawn, the period in which the first…
A black hole caught blowing a gust
Lurking about 70 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Grus, you will find the galaxy NGC 7582…
It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered Another Earth
Astronomers have discovered a planet nearly the same size as Earth that orbits in its star’s habitable zone, where liquid…
Quasar closest to the Milky Way hides unknown structure in its galaxy
An unknown structure, formed by faint radio emissions in a giant galaxy that harbors a quasar, has been detected by…