Astronomy

Comet Chury has an aurora

Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Image: ESA / Rosetta / NAVCAM) On earth, the northern lights provide spectacular sky spectacles - colored luminous phenomena in the...

Wiggling at the event horizon

Modeling of the light ring in M87 from 2009 to 2017: The light zone moves. (Image: M. Wielgus & the EHT collaboration) In April...

Mars: patchwork of deep water reservoirs

Look at the south pole region of Mars. (Image: dottedhippo / iStock) On the trail of the Martian wet: Researchers have confirmed previous indications...

Origin of cosmic diamonds revealed

Sample of a ureilite meteorite in a spectroscopic representation: diamond (red), graphite (blue). (Image: Cyrena Goodrich) Gemstones of a special kind: Researchers have discovered...

Galaxies in the network of a black hole

This artist's impression shows the central black hole and the galaxies trapped in its gas network. (Image: ESO / L. Calçada) There were surprisingly...

Awarded to pioneers of black hole exploration

Black holes are still puzzling. (Image: brightstars / iStock Black holes are still one of the most puzzling phenomena in the cosmos. But...

How much does the Milky Way weigh?

The Milky Way and some of its globular clusters (illustration) (Image: ESA / Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada) Billions of stars and various accumulations of matter...

Are planets siblings of their stars?

Stars and planets grow together, suggesting the structure of matter around a protostar that is still growing. (Image: MPE / D. Segura-Cox) A...

News from the asteroid Bennu

False color image of asteroid Bennu. More weathered rocks appear blue, less weathered rocks red. (Image: NASA / Goddard, University of Arizona) In...

Star death at the black hole

Artist's impression of a star being torn apart by the tidal action of a supermassive black hole. (Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser) The supermassive...

Ceres: Salty water in the underground

In this representation of a region in the Occator Crater of Ceres, the salty liquids are highlighted in red, which were pushed up from...

A Milky Way analogue in the early cosmos

The light of the galaxy SPT0418-47 is distorted by the gravitational lens effect and appears as a nearly perfect ring of light. (Image:...

Dust caused Betelgeuse to darken

The strong plasma eruption (left) from Betelgeuse turned into a cloud of dust that obscured the view of the star. (Image: NASA, ESA,...

Merging creates an intermediate black hole

Simulation of the gravitational waves at GW190521. (Image: LIGO / Virgo) Astronomers have already tracked dozens of black hole mergers via gravitational waves, but...

Torn by three stars

Caption: The triple star system GW Orionis has a deformed planet-forming disc with an obliquely aligned ring. (Image: ESO / L. Calçada, Exeter...

The moon is rusting

Occurrence of hematite (red) on the lunar front (Image: Shuai Li) We know it from Mars and also from Earth: When iron comes into contact...

Astronomy also has to do with climate change

The Paranal Observatory in Chile: Climate change can affect astronomical observations. (Image: ESO / S. Brunier) You're not looking at the universe for once...

“Naked” planet discovered

Artist's impression of the planet roughly the size of Neptune in front of its central star. (Image: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick) A...

Gamma-ray burst tests quantum gravity

Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst (Image: Superbossa.com, Alice Donini / MAGIC Collaboration) The speed of light is constant, according to Einstein's theory of relativity....

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