An artist’s conception of cold planet distribution throughout the Milky Way. For comparison, the cyan cone is the Kepler transit survey field. The inset shows an artistic conception of a planetary system in the Galactic bulge. Credit: Osaka UniversityResearchers led by Osaka University and NASA found that the distribution of cold "planets" in the...
The photo showcases NGC 6717, which exists more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Sagittarius constellation.Credit: ESA HUBBLENASA's Hubble telescope has given us some impressive images for many years. In 2019, when it turned 29, it sent us a treasure of a shot of the crab nebula.Now, it is back with a fantastic...
The fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy. Credit: MITThe results give a blueprint for finding such systems in deep space's quieter, emptier areas.By definition, dwarf galaxies are tiny and dim, with just a fraction of the stars located in the Milky...
The process might additionally "solve a serious emergency comparable to the Apollo 13 calamity."A brand-new type of inexpensive real estate has been suggested for future Mars colonists. All the astronauts are required to do is pay in blood.Scientists from the College of Manchester proposed-- we guarantee this is not the story of a 90s...
How unusual is our Solar System? In about 30 years since planets were first discovered orbiting stars besides our Sun, we have found that planetary systems are prevalent in the Galaxy. However, most of them are pretty different from the Solar System we know.The worlds in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in...
Fast-moving debris from a supernova explosion triggered by a stellar collision crashes into material thrown out earlier, and the shocks cause bright radio emission seen by the VLA. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSFAstronomers have found remarkable evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way right into the center of a companion star...
Cosmos Display at the front of the Antikythera Mechanism, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon, and five planets as well as the phase of the Moon and the nodes of the Moon. Copyright © 2020 Tony FreethResearchers at UCL have fixed a significant piece of the challenge that makes up the ancient Greek...
Image of the fireball in 28 February. (Image credit: UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided)Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences in the Open University, related who on February 28th at 21:54 GMT, around the time of the late evening news in the UK, a different news story emerged in the night sky -...
Vega is the fifth brightest star, excluding the sun, that can be seen from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)A possible searing-hot planet was spotted by astronomers, orbiting Vega, one of the brightest and most known stars in the sky.Approximately the size of Neptune, the candidate alien planet lies very close to Vega, taking 2.5 Earth...
