Afterglow of the gamma ray burst GRB181123B (circle) (Image: Travis Rector / University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani and Davide de Martin)
Gamma ray bursts...
Illustration of the phoenix star stream (Image: Geraint F. Lewis / S5 Collaboration)
The fringes of the Milky Way also include numerous globular clusters -...
Spatial curvature in the triple system PSR J0337 + 1715 (Image: Michael Kramer / MPIfR)
According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravitation has the...
Delta-Scuti-Stern HD 31901 (Bild: Chris Boshuizen/ University of Sydney)
Auch wenn Sterne die auffälligsten und am besten beobachtbaren Objekte am Nachthimmel sind – von ihrem...
Why Einstein is right: The astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel explains the Schwarzschild precession - an effect of general relativity that arises around the black hole...
'Oumuamua-like object, created in a model simulation. (Image: NAOC / Y. Zhang)
In autumn 2017, a cigar-shaped object flew through our solar system at high...
Man looks in wonder and curiosity into the cosmos. (Image: solarseven / iStock)
Dark energy, the big bang, the expansion of the universe ... Cosmologists...
The moon was created when the young earth collided with a protoplanet. (Image: johan63 / iStock)
According to current theory, the moon is the result...
The star HD74423 is deformed and shows brightness fluctuations on only one side. (Image: Gabriel Pérez Díaz / IAC)
Astronomers know many stars that change...