In 2009, a giant star 25 times more massive than the sun disappeared. OK, it’s not that simple. It went through a period of brilliance,…
Searching for dark matter with white dwarfs
The search for dark matter particles continues, with astronomers exploring a variety of methods to detect these elusive particles. One approach is to look for…
Will we know life when we see it? The radio telescope scanned Barnard’s Star in search of extraterrestrial signals
Barnard’s Star is a small red dwarf located just six light years from Earth. Despite its proximity, it went unnoticed until 1916, when E. E.…
“James Webb” first noticed the release of carbon dioxide on a Centaur. This may explain the functioning of those organs
Image of Centaur 39P taken during the NIRSpec O observation. Harrington Pinto et al. /arXiv, 2023 The James Webb Infrared Space Telescope is the first…
The search for a connection between the two most fascinating phenomena in the Universe has not yet been successful.
Occasionally, astronomers observe intense bursts of radio waves from space that last only a moment but release as much energy in a millisecond as the…
Hell in the vastness of the Universe: NASA discovered an exoplanet that is constantly burning
The illustration shows what exoplanet 55 Cancri e might look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet…
The pinwheel galaxy’s supernova progenitor lost mass several years before dying
Daichi Hiramatsu et al. / The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 This led to the formation of dense circumstellar matter. Astronomers have determined that the progenitor…
The search for a connection between two of the most fascinating phenomena in the Universe has not yet been successful.
Occasionally, astronomers observe intense bursts of radio waves from space that last only a moment but release as much energy in a millisecond as the…
The cosmic web in the intergalactic environment was captured directly for the first time
Despite the infinite cosmic distance, the galaxies scattered throughout the Universe are not isolated islands of matter. Since the birth of the Universe, filaments of…
Below are the first direct images of the cosmic grid in the dark region of the universe
The vast, virtually invisible network of fibers that stretch and connect the Universe have finally been discovered to glow in the dark. In the distant…