Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our universe was born in a massive explosion that gave rise to the first subatomic particles and the laws of physics as we know them. About 370,000 years later, hydrogen had formed, the building ...
Astronomy
Jan 6, 2022
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Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year with this new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). But no need to worry, this iconic constellation is neither ...
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2022
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For the first time, scientists—starting from a discovery by scientific amateurs—have succeeded in confirm evidence for a fully developed shell of a common-envelope system (CE), the phase of the common envelope of ...
Astronomy
Dec 21, 2021
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The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The ...
Astronomy
Dec 14, 2021
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Astronomers have a model of how galaxy cluster collisions go through different stages, taking on various shapes. A blunt body shape turns into a sharp cone, which turns into a tongue-like shape. The first and last have been ...
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2021
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation ...
Astronomy
Nov 30, 2021
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Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the sun and its connection to 'space weather." During the flyby Solar Orbiter must pass through the clouds of space debris ...
Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2021
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In a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Prof. Xing Lifeng from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his collaborators found the chromospheric activity index of a sample active stars increases ...
Astronomy
Oct 29, 2021
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When planets form, they usually continue their orbital evolution in the equatorial plane of their star. However, an international team, led by astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has discovered ...
Astronomy
Oct 27, 2021
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An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a structure thought to be a "protocluster" of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. Located 11 billion light-years from Earth, the ...
Astronomy
Oct 27, 2021
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