Massive Stellar Explosion Illuminates Thousand-Year-Old Astronomical Mystery
A star in a distant galaxy blew up in a powerful explosion, solving an astronomical mystery Dr. Iair Arcavi, a…
Astrophysics
Astronomers Rare Sighting of a Teardrop-Shaped Star
Astronomers have made the rare sighting of two stars spiraling to their doom by spotting the tell-tale signs of a…
Sound of Collision of 2 Neutron Stars!
Ligo is well known for their contrbution to the detection of gravitational waves, but who knew that they would able…
Juno and XMM-Newton Unravel Jupiter’s X-ray Auroras Mystery
In a collaboration by planetary astronomers, measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft in Jupiter’s orbit and data from ESA’s Earth-orbiting XMM-Newton…
Learning New Things About Our Home Star: Physicists First Definitive Measurements of the Sun’s Electric Field
In a new study, physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first definitive measurements of the sun’s electric…
Supermassive black holes give birth to stars, astronomers discover
These stellar gourmands gobble up stars but also form them from rapid outflows of gases A team of astrophysicists has…
The actual motion of Planets
The sun itself rotates on its own axis slowly, once a month. The planets all revolve around the sun in…
What is an Hypergiant?
Hypergiant (luminosity class 0 or Ia+) is a very rare type of star that has an extremely high luminosity, mass,…
An Entire Swarm of Black Holes Has Been Caught Moving Through The Milky Way
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of…
A Galactic spectacle
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA’s Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about…