Using NASA’s TESS satellite, an international team of astronomers has discovered nine new hot Jupiters. One of the newly discovered exoplanets has almost four times…
Hubble shows galaxy exploded with supernova 2.5 billion times brighter than our Sun
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko The Hubble Space Telescope has released an image of a small galaxy, UGC 5189A, observed in the constellation Leo,…
An ancient globular cluster with a mystery at its center: unique radio images from astronomers
Have you ever looked at the night sky and pondered what is going on there? Stars, planets, comets, systems – all this appears so far…
Discovery of new Be/X-ray binary star system
UKIDSS J-band finding chart for 4XMM J182531.5–144036. The red circle is centered on the XMM-Newton detected position, with a radius of 1′′ equal to the…
Researchers have found the remains of the Barbenheimer star – it damaged the known laws of material science when it detonated
A group of astronomers at the University of Chicago has discovered the remains of a supernova explosion in our galaxy that violated the known laws…
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious signal from outside the galaxy
Analyzing data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope over the past 13 years, NASA astronomers have discovered an unexpected signal emanating from outside the galaxy,…
Scientists have discovered that the conditions necessary for star formation have remained unchanged for billions of years.
Astronomers have completed the largest and most detailed study to date of the causes of star formation in the universe’s largest galaxy. The researchers used…
Astronomers accidentally discovered a galaxy with no stars
A team of astrophysicists at the Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory accidentally discovered a rare spiral galaxy with no stars. This could be the…
Scientists have solved an 18-year-old mystery surrounding the birth of young stars at the edges of galaxies
Molecular clouds reveal secrets of star formation on the outskirts of galaxies Although the process of star formation inside galaxies is well understood, until now…
Secrets of space giants: ‘missing link’ between stars and black holes discovered
For the first time in history, we have obtained direct observational evidence of the stellar processes that produce neutron stars and black holes. Astronomers observed…