A Bizarre Radio Signal From Deep Space Has Been Detected Beating Like a Heart
A new radio signal from deep space is once again challenging our understanding of these mysterious phenomena. Not only is…
Astrophysics
Could the coma of a comet expand so much to become bigger than the Sun?
Surprisingly yes, and this is what happened to Comet Holmes during the 2007 passage. Holmes is a comet that orbits…
A Star Turned Into “Cosmic Spaghetti” by a Black Hole
In 2019, astronomers observed one of the closest examples to date of a star that had been shredded or “spaghettified”…
A Giant Comet Along With The Biggest And Brightest Full Moon Of 2022 Will Light Up The Night Sky This Week
The size of the comet designated C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) and dubbed K2, is predicted to be between 18 and 100…
How did the “zombie star” survive an explosion?
American astronomers have observed in a relatively close galaxy a star that not only survived an incident that should have…
STARS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT
Understanding the Lifecycles of Stars Stars are a fundamental building block in the universe and dominate the night sky seen…
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,…