The collision with a celestial body called Theia 4.5 billion years ago left behind remains deep inside the Earth – and also created the Moon.…
The most detailed image of cosmic rays published: it defies modern physics
Scientists have revealed new details about the plasma jet of 3C 279, a flare with a supermassive black hole at its core. Using a network…
The “twisted” binary star turned out to be an orphan planet “factory”.
The authors of the new work modeled the behavior of planets around binary stars and came to the conclusion that under such conditions it is…
The collision of two neutron stars produces huge amounts of rare metals
The collision produced a gamma-ray burst that is one of the largest ever observed by astronomers. The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (FGST) and the…
Exoplanets. “James Webb” directly examined the four outsiders
The James Webb Infrared Space Telescope has obtained new live images of the outsized system around the star HR 8799. Observational data allowed to recalculate…
JWST helped study exoplanets of the HR 8799 system
The MIRI instrument aboard JWST helps study a particularly interesting star system, HR 8799. The observations provided data to analyze the chemical composition of the…
A time when there was no time. Why does the universe have no beginning or boundary?
The book “On the Origin of Time”. Stephen Hawking’s Last Theory” by Thomas Hertog, a friend and colleague of Hawking who worked with him during…
Astronomers discover ‘runaway star’
Stars escape their birthplace and eventually disperse throughout the Galaxy. This is an important process in the evolution of the galaxy. Theoretical studies suggest two…
ALMA Observations of the Extraordinary Carina Pillars.
Astronomers have looked inside the Carina Nebula to learn more about the processes within its pillars. Nebulae where stars form are very busy places. But…
Super ball from the fourth dimension: another theory about ball lightning
Ball lightning is one of the most mysterious and difficult to explain natural phenomena. He appeared during the storm, flew through the air, passed through…