Astronomy

Lunar coat is drier on the turned side

Sampling points of different moon mission, the Chang'e-6 landing point in the South Pole-Aitken basin is marked red. © sen HU Group ...

New view of the cosmic background radiation

Map of the cosmic microwave background. The neckline is ten degrees wide and high. Yellow-orange colors show higher intensity, blue on a lower one....

Why is Mars red?

Mars is reddish. But how does this color create? © ESA/MPS for Osiris Team, UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/Inta/UPM/Dasp/Ida ...

First 3D view into the atmosphere of an exoplanet

The atmosphere of WASP-121B is divided into three layers: Iron-containing winds, above it is a jet stream with sodium gas and the top layer...

EUCLID space telescope shows Einstein-Ring

The bright ring around the center of the Galaxy NGC 6505, which the ESA telescope Euclid has recorded, is an impressive example of an...

A fast radio burst with unusual origins

The CHIME radio telescope in Canada was the first to detect the fast radio burst FRB 20240209A in February 2024. © CHIME/ Andre Renard,...

Black hole shows unusual X-ray oscillations

X-ray oscillations from around a supermassive black hole could be generated by a white dwarf in its orbit. © Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State University ...

Corrected moon age

A good hundred million years after its formation, the moon was highly volcanically active. This could have distorted dates. © MPS/Alexey Chizhik ...

First binary star in the Milky Way’s black hole

Object D9 orbits close to the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*. Observations have now revealed that D9 is a young binary star...

Gamma ray burst captured on M87* jet

Images of M87*'s jet in various regions of radio and X-ray emission and light curve of the gamma-ray burst (below). © EHT Collaboration, Fermi-LAT...

What “Firefly Sparkle” reveals about the early Milky Way

The distant galaxy "Firefly Sparkle" provides new clues about the possible evolution of the early Milky Way. © NASA/ESA/CSA, STScI, Chris Willott (NRC-Canada), Lamiya...

Cosmic expansion remains controversial

The galaxy NGC 4258 is one of the galaxies whose distance astronomers have now checked using the James Webb Telescope. © ESA/NASA/CSA, J. Glenn,...

Simulation reveals sun’s polar vortex

Simulation of the polar vortex on the Sun in its initial state. Later, the vortices migrate further poleward and only two remain. © University...

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