Astronomers from the University of Warwick have discovered a rare type of pulsar white dwarf star system, of which there is only one other recorded…
Flashes of giant cities on alien worlds could be visible from Earth
As current technology already allows direct imaging of exoplanets, this opens up new opportunities to search for intelligent life in the Universe. New research suggests…
Webb rules out that TRAPPIST-1 c is really a Venus analogue
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…