Astronomy

The big gap

Turbulent past: When the solar system formed, space was still full of gas, dust and rock in the protoplanetary disk. Gravity formed today's...

On the trail of the solar wind drive

The semicircular dark area is a coronal hole in the sun. © ESA/olar Orbiter/EUI; Science, Chitta et al. ...

A super-tight collision product?

Artist's impression of the enigmatic exoplanet TOI-1853b. © Luca Naponiello Denser than steel: Astronomers report a Neptune-sized exoplanet with a gigantic mass. It is about...

Neutrinos from the neighbors

Cosmic Lighthouse: The angular momentum in space-time around a rotating black hole can be tapped and used for extreme light amplification. With this,...

Can planets share an orbit?

A planet and its possible Trojan (circled dashed) orbiting the star PDS 70. © ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) /Balsalobre-Ruza et al. ...

Why Venus is so “hot-blooded”.

Presentation video for the study. ©Southwest Research Institute What is the secret of our planetary neighbor's "fiery temper" and "youthful looks"? A model simulation now...

The search for the impossible

Celestial changes: Explosions or a spontaneous collapse into a black hole can change the brightness of stars enormously and very suddenly. But if...

“Wet” planetary nursery discovered

Artist's rendering of the water-rich inner disc of PDS 70 and the two gas giant planets that have already formed. © MPIA ...

Exotic Particle

The TOTEM experiment at the CERN research center in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. On the left in the...

Insight into the mysteries of planet formation

A combination of two exposures detail the complex material system around the star V960 Mon. © ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al. ...

“Never do anything in space that you haven’t practiced first!”

Mission Apollo 16: Duke at the rim of the 40 meter wide Plum Crater; in the background top left the moon car. ©NASA ...

Faintest galaxy in the early cosmos

Galaxy JD1 (detail) and the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, which acts as a gravitational lens. © Guido Roberts-Borsani/UCLA); Original images: NASA, ESA, CSA,...

Controversial Quantum Reality

Man in the multiverse: Perhaps every quantum alternative leads to a splitting of the universe. Then you could sort of eat a cake...

Organic Molecules in an Early Galaxy

The early galaxy's light was distorted into a ring by gravitational lensing. The orange area in the ring indicates the spectral signature of...

Einstein’s spook

Reality and locality: In everyday life, objects usually have a specific place and are in definite relationships with other objects separate from them. ...

Additional planet discovered in “Tatooine System”.

Illustration of the method that led to the discovery of the circumbinary planet: In the radial velocity method, tiny shifts in the light spectrum...

Gentle Supernova

Binary star systems like CPD −29 2176 are a cosmic anomaly. There are probably only a dozen of them in the Milky Way...

Phosphates in Enceladus’ Ocean

Beneath Enceladus' icy crust lies an ocean of liquid water that feeds its geysers. © Pitris/ iStock ...

Special steam in distant hell atmosphere

Artist's rendering of the ultra-hot planet WASP-76b. © International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani Extreme heat with a mobilizing effect: astronomers have detected several rock-forming...

cosmic collision

Neighboring colossus: With a diameter of almost 200,000 light-years and around 1.6 trillion solar masses, the Andromeda galaxy is larger and heavier than the...

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