Over the past decades, ground-based and orbiting observatories have discovered thousands of exoplanets of various sizes. Some of them look like Earth, others look like…
Scientists have determined the shape of space
Credit: Three possible geometries of space: spherical, saddle, and flat. (Credit: NASA / WMAP Science Team) According to scientists, the shape of the universe is…
Scientists think Betelgeuse swallowed its companion star
Betelgeuse has been the subject of scientific interest in recent years because its brightness has changed dramatically several times. Earlier this year, the red superstar…
Physicists say time travel can be simulated using quantum entanglement
The quantum world operates according to different rules than the classical macroscopic world around us, making the impossible possible. Physicists plan to use quantum entanglement…
Strange spots in the Earth’s crust are remnants of a massive collision
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…