An asteroid discovery algorithm — designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. The Rubin Observatory’s upcoming 10-year night sky survey has identified its…
Researchers study hard X-ray emission from low-mass X-ray binaries of neutron stars
Correlation between the photon index (Γ) of a rigid X-ray tail and its flux (in ∼30–200 keV, in units of 109 ergs cm−2 s−1). The…
Team identifies three-star gas energy transmitters
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J.-E. Lee et al. The gas distribution around the protostar IRAS 04239+2436, (left) ALMA observations of SO emissions, and (right) as reconstructed…
A record binary system found with a tight spin
A binary system called ZTF J2020+5033 has been discovered, breaking records with its extremely tight rotation. The system is located just 457 light-years away and…
JWST detects more black holes than astronomers predicted
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope could help answer questions about how celestial bodies formed in the early Universe. Last August, astrophysicist Dale Kocevski…
Cold stars with powerful winds complicate habitability
Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) have conducted the first systematic characterization of the properties of stellar winds in a sample…
NASA’s Webb telescope reveals never-before-seen details of this cluster of galaxies
A new image of the galaxy cluster known as “El Gordo” is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of…
The James Webb telescope captures a highly detailed image of actively forming stars
The colorful snapshot, the highest resolution in near-infrared light, shows a stellar duo orbiting each other NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the ‘antics’…
Contact with Voyager 2 probe was lost due to inadvertent error, NASA announces
Flight controllers accidentally sent an incorrect command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the antenna and cut communication. After days of silence, NASA has heard…
A study determines for the first time how much stars should innately twinkle
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University in the United States has developed the first 3D simulations of energy ripples from the core of…