This artist’s concept shows what the hot, rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c might look like based on this work. – NASA, ESA, CSA, JOSEPH OLMSTED (STSCI…
Earthquakes would be related to solar activity according to a study by physicists
The analyzes show that the correlation maximum occurs every 10 or 11 years, a period similar to the solar activity cycle. There is a clear…
Astronomers discover an ancient ultra-weak and metal-poor star cluster
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new star cluster (SC) as part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. The…
Astronomers used VODKA to investigate the nature of the quasar SDSS J0823+2418
By performing Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual sub-Kpc AGN (VODKA), astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and elsewhere have investigated a quasar known…
Giant tails of helium are detected escaping from a distant planet
A team of astronomers have used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin to discover…
A flash of light brighter than a trillion suns reveals the location of a strange galaxy with a double black hole
Mysterious flares in the sky brighter than a trillion suns are actually the glow from two distant circling black holes, astronomers have confirmed in new…
Scientists discover rocky vapors in the ultra-hot Jupiter near us, famous for raining metal
There are planets in our Universe that are classified as ultrahot Jupiters. We can assume that this is due to its enormous size and its…
Scientists discover the fastest stars ever seen in the Milky Way
Astronomers have detected the fastest runaway star ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy: the shell of a star thrown at breakneck speeds from a…
Phosphorus, the critical ingredient for life that was yet to be found on this moon of Saturn, is detected in Enceladus
The moon Enceladus, photographed by the Cassini NASA spacecraft The discovery of phosphates in the subterranean ocean of Enceladus makes it habitable, although not necessarily…
Thanks to the Webb Space Observatory, they discover that galaxies transformed the early universe
The finding by scientists from the University of Zurich and published by NASA sheds light on a period known scientifically as ‘the Era of Reionization’,…