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PinSeeing a black hole’s jet in a new light: A look at high-energy particles being blasted across spaceIn Spaceon 28 October 20243 min readResearch led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra...
PinNASA telescopes discover brown dwarf protoplanetary disks in the Orion NebulaIn Spaceon 28 October 20244 min readNewborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In...
PinDiscovery of carbon-storing molecules in a distant interstellar cloud may shed light on how our own solar system formedIn Spaceon 24 October 20246 min readA team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a...
PinRecord gamma rays detected at Milky Way’s coreIn Spaceon 24 October 20244 min readAt the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers...
PinDiscovery of ‘black hole triple’ may be first direct evidence of ‘gentle’ black hole formationIn Spaceon 24 October 20246 min readMany black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole...
PinRocky planets orbiting small stars could have stable atmospheres needed to support lifeIn Spaceon 23 October 20244 min readSince its launch in late 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has raised the possibility that we could detect signs...
PinWebb finds candidates for first young brown dwarfs outside the Milky WayIn Spaceon 23 October 20243 min readNear the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star...
PinAstronomers use JWST to study hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis of jet-driven supernovaeIn Spaceon 23 October 20242 min readA study published in The Astrophysical Journal presents new simulation results of supernova explosions that explain the latest observational data...
PinPseudo-3D cubes technique could alter our understanding of cosmic structures, central black holes of galaxiesIn Spaceon 23 October 20243 min readResearchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering have developed a new technique that reconstructs...
PinMassive stars born from violent cosmic collapse: New process of star formation challenges turbulent core modelIn Spaceon 22 October 20242 min readControlled chaos is a key part of forming massive stars. An international team of astronomers has observed evidence that massive...
PinNOAA releases imagery from world’s first operational space-based coronagraphIn Spaceon 22 October 20242 min readNOAA today shared the first images from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope onboard the new GOES-19 satellite....
PinExperimental study offers insights into mysterious flow features on airless worldsIn Spaceon 22 October 20243 min readA Southwest Research Institute researcher collaborated with a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to attempt to explain the presence...