Astronomy

Astronomy

Astronomers discover wandering black hole

The gravity of the invisible black hole enlarges and brightens the background star (arrow). © NASA/ESA, Kailash Sahu (STScI); Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Black...
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Astronomy

BepiColombo skims past Mercury again, yielding beautiful close-up photos!

Among other things, we get a picture of Mercury's largest crater, which will be extensively studied by the space probe in a few...
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Astronomy

Even on Mars, Windows 98 is now obsolete

Mars Express' MARSIS instrument will undergo a major software update that will allow it to peer even better beneath the surface of Mars...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

No, the Chinese (most likely) did not receive a signal from aliens

The FAST radio telescope may have seen signs of an alien civilization, a Chinese newspaper reported last week. Other scientists don't want...
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Astronomy

Marslander InSight goes on the hunt for marsquakes again (even if that will be his downfall)

The mission team hopes to use Insight's last-minute powers to collect important scientific data. Marslander Insight is dying. NASA announced this last month....
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Gaia: Census of the Milky Way

ESA's Gaia satellite has now mapped the features and motion of nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way. © ESA/ATG medialab, ESA/Gaia/DPAC 1.5...
Ashton Edwards -
Astronomy

Neutrinomystery Still Unsolved

One American experiment thinks it has measured a surplus of certain neutrinos, the other sees nothing strange. Where does that come from? Neutrinos...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Mysterious ‘blue blobs’: new type of galaxy discovered full of young blue stars

The blue blobs don't last long, but they are spectacular. Scientists discovered as many as five galaxies with these young blue stars....
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

The most beautiful photo of a mysterious dwarf planet actually deserves a place in the Rijksmuseum

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft arrived at dwarf planet Pluto. For the first time we got to see pictures...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Jupiter’s moon Europa eclipses distant star. And that’s very special

We won't see much of it, but it is special: tomorrow morning Europa, one of Jupiter's most interesting moons, will maneuver itself right...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Two new super-Earths in the solar neighborhood

Artist's rendering of two super-Earths, HD 260655 b and HD 260655 c © NASA/JPL-Caltech Our cosmic neighborhood seems to be teeming with exoplanets, even our...
Ashton Edwards -
Astronomy

Mars rover makes an unexpected discovery on Mars: Litter (and no, it’s not from aliens)

The glossy foil was part of Perseverance's thermal blanket. However, it is puzzling how this waste ended up two kilometers from the...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Possibly one of the youngest neutron stars ever discovered!

The object—which may well be the successor to the famous Crab Nebula—may be only fourteen years old. A neutron star is the remnant of...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Two planets discovered around nearby star

These are two rocky planets the size of Earth, located just 33 light-years away. Astronomers have discovered two rocky planets in our own 'cosmic...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Record-breaking fast nova keeps people busy

The unusual nova, which died out in less than a day, could lead us to answer some big questions about the formation of...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Interstellar travel without a starship: aliens might do it!

Aliens may not travel in starships, but on complete but lonely planets through interstellar space. Professor Irina Mullins comes up with this idea in...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Are sulphur-eating aliens hiding in Venus’ atmosphere? Nope, according to new research

It seemed such a beautiful and appropriate hypothesis: aliens living high in the atmosphere of Venus and secretly sniffing sulfur dioxide. But...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Trembling stars, mysterious macromolecules and primordial suns: new dataset from Gaia makes the heart of many an astronomer beat faster

Astronomers have been eagerly awaiting it; the new data set from the Gaia space telescope. It was released today. And...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Black holes shooting through the Milky Way like cannonballs: Hubble thinks it’s (finally!) spotted one

There are an estimated 100 million black holes in our Milky Way galaxy. Yet scientists have never been able to identify an...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Earth and moon seem to collide in these photos, but appearances threaten

The moon moving in front of the earth: it remains a special image. The space photo of the week is actually a...
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