Astronomy

Astronomers Find a Multiplanet System Nearby

MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that exists just 10 parsecs, or approximately 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanet systems to our own. The star at the system's heart likely hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized planets. Credit: MIT News, with TESS Satellite figure courtesy of...

Potential Alien Sign Coming From an Earth-like Planet

But do not be too thrilled-- the researchers say it might easily just be a misidentified transmission from us humans.Credit: NASA.A group of Chinese and American researchers put their reputation on the line with a bold claim: that, with many caveats, a recently identified narrowband signal could indicate intelligent extraterrestrial life.The uncommon signal-- captured...

How The Universe Acquired Its Magnetic Fields

Hidden magnetic field lines stretch millions of light years across the universe. Credit:  Quanta Magazine.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...

Astrophysicists Develop “Time Machine” Simulations To Observe the Lifecycle of Ancestor Galaxy Cities

Scientists create “time machine” simulations studying the lifecycle of ancestor galaxy cities. Credit: Scitech Daily.Scientists have produced simulations that directly recreate the complete life cycle of a few of the biggest collections of galaxies observed.Several processes in astrophysics take a very long time, making their evolution tricky to study. A star like our sun...

NASA’s SOFIA Flying Telescope Spots Eclipse of Strange Binary Star

A composite image of the R Aquarii binary star was recorded by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA. Credit: NASA.NASA's flying telescope SOFIA has been watching a dance between 2 celebrities orbiting each other as they come close to the minute of the eclipse, enabling astronomers to study how both exchange stardust.SOFIA, short for "Stratospheric...

The Model Identifies Glaciers Risking Collapse Because of Climate Change

A swimming pool of meltwater in a crevasse in an Alaskan glacier. Credit: Earth.As environment adjustment warms the world. Glaciers are thawing much faster, as well as scientists fear that many will fall down by the end of the century. considerably elevating sea level and also swamping coastal cities and island countries.At a University...

A Strange Rising Radiance in a Remote Galaxy Can Modification the Means We Consider Great Voids

This illustration reveals the accumulation disk, corona (pale, cone-shaped swirls over the disk), and also supermassive great void of energetic galaxy 1ES 1927 +654 before its recent flare-up. Credit: NASA/Sonoma State College, Aurore Simonnet.Something weird is taking place in the galaxy referred to as 1ES 1927 +654: In late 2017, and for reasons that...

Astronomers Discover a Rare “Black Widow” Binary, With the Shortest Orbit Yet

An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat the facing side of the star (orange). The pulsar is gradually evaporating its partner. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain.The flashing of a nearby star has attracted MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light-years...

“Hyper Burst” Nuclear Explosion Observed for the First Time in a Neutron Star

Credit: techzle.Astronomers believe they have discovered proof for an incredibly powerful nuclear explosion in space-- one so unique that seeing one like it again is extremely unlikely.The explosion appears to have occurred inside an unusual neutron star found 140,000 light-years from Earth called MAXI J0556-- 332. Neutron stars are the remnant cores of bigger...

Do We Exist in a Multiverse?

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...