These Super Earths are located just 150 light years from us and would be terrifying A study led by researchers from the University of Liège…
NASA has detected the first polar cyclone on Uranus
Observations to detect the first polar cyclone on Uranus. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA With the discovery, it is confirmed that all planets in the solar system that…
A rare type of black hole whose existence has never been proven could be orbiting our galaxy right now, the Hubble telescope reveals
The Hubble Space Telescope may have found a rare “missing link” black hole hidden in Earth’s cosmic backyard. Located approximately 6,000 light-years away at the…
Strange star system may have the first evidence of an ultra-rare ‘dark matter star’
For a long time, astronomers thought that a peculiar star system observed by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite was simply a case of a…
Webb telescope shows features of the oldest massive and dense galaxy
GS-9209 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope along with other galaxies. G. BRAMMER, C. WILLIAMS, A. CARNALL Despite being about 10 times smaller than…
A deep study of open cluster NGC 5288 …
Map identification of NGC 5288 taken from DSS. Credit: Sethi et al, 2023 Located about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Circinus, NGC 5288 (also…
New clues about the relationship between black holes and star formation
A collaboration between scholars from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and the University of Bologna has identified the oldest inactive galaxy – which means that…
A giant star has just exploded as a supernova and is beginning to be visible in the sky
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Detlef Hartmann; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech Excitement is growing among astronomers as it is the closest supernova explosion in nearly a decade.…
BlackGEM telescopes begin search for sources of gravitational waves
Three Belgian-Dutch telescopes have started operating at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This so-called BlackGEM network will scan the southern skies for cosmic events…
The first radio detection of a type Ia supernova sheds light on the origin of these explosions
Type Ia supernovae occur when a white dwarf, the ‘corpse’ of a star similar to the Sun, absorbs material from a companion star and reaches…