Astrophysics

Far out in the Milky Way, about 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic power that beats anything physicists have seen before. At an enormous 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar named Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around one billion Tesla, discovered surrounding the pulsars GRO J1008-57 and […]

Spirals, ellipticals, and irregulars are all more frequent than ring galaxies. Finally, we know how these ultra-rare things are made. When we look out into deep space, beyond the confines of the Milky Way, we discover that the Universe is not quite so empty. Galaxies-tiny and huge, near and far, in rich clusters and near-total

Amateur astronomers may very soon be able to see a comet initially spotted in 2017. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), abridged as K2 for brief, was once the most distant active comet ever before pinpointed, a difference it recently ceded to the mega comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, found out last year. However, even without a superlative, K2 is

When we look into space, all of the astrophysical objects seen are enclosed in magnetic fields. This holds not only in the neighborhood of stars and planets but likewise in the deep space between galaxies and galactic clusters. These fields are weak– generally much weaker than those of a refrigerator magnet– yet they are dynamically

Something weird is taking place in the galaxy referred to as 1ES 1927 +654: In late 2017, and for reasons that scientists could not clarify. The supermassive great void sitting at the heart of this galaxy undertook a substantial ID. Over a period of months, the already-bright object. Which is so luminescent that it comes

The flashing of a nearby star has attracted MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light-years from Earth. The stellar oddity seems to be a new “black widow binary,” a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar, circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, as its arachnid name does to its companion. Astronomers

As for we presently know, there is a solitary expanding blob of spacetime speckled with trillions of galaxies – that is our Universe. If there are others, forming a multiverse, we have no riveting evidence for their existence. Theories of cosmology, quantum physics, and the very philosophy of science have some issues that could be

It has long been recognized that Mars once had oceans due, in part, to a protective magnetic field similar to Earth’s. Nevertheless, the electromagnetic field disappeared, and a new research study may lastly be able to explain why. Scientists recreated conditions anticipated in the core of Mars billions of years ago. They found that the