Astronomy

Black holes: middle class on the trail

Images of the center of galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5 have captured a black hole consuming a star. Credit: NASA, ESA, Ryan Foley/UC ...

Ashton Edwards - November 12, 2022

Astronomy

Magnetic field reversal in the solar corona

Image of a switchback in the solar corona.© ESA&NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI&Metis teams and D. Telloni et al. (2022) ...

Ashton Edwards - November 4, 2022

Astronomy

Lunar loss may have created Saturn’s rings

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Ashton Edwards - October 27, 2022

Astronomy

The cosmic dynamics in sight

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Ashton Edwards - October 23, 2022

Astronomy

Quantum entanglement explorer awarded

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Ashton Edwards - October 7, 2022

Astronomy

Successful O₂ production on Mars

The MOXIE instrument, weighing around 17 kilograms, was installed in the Perseverance rover and is now in use on the red planet. ©NASA/JPL...

Ashton Edwards - September 25, 2022

Astronomy

“Ice Planet Diamonds” created

Diamonds can be made from the material of plastic bottles in an "extraterrestrial way". © HZDR ...

Ashton Edwards - September 21, 2022

Astronomy

Mars’ proton aurora is ‘blotchy’

Images of the Martian aurora in the wavelengths 102.6 nanometers (left) and 121.6 nanometers with the UV spectrometer EMUS. © EMM/EMUS ...

Ashton Edwards - September 17, 2022

Astronomy

Possible water world in sight

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Ashton Edwards - September 1, 2022

Astronomy

CO2 detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet

This is what the exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like. © NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) ...

Ashton Edwards - August 28, 2022

Astronomy

Ice from snow from below

Representation of the planned NASA space probe Europa Clipper, which is to examine Jupiter's moon Europa, among other things, using ice-penetrating radar. ©...

Ashton Edwards - August 20, 2022

Astronomy