Stellar embryos in nearby dwarf galaxy contain surprisingly complex organic molecules
The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive place.
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Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect
The spots on the surface on the sun come and go with an 11-year periodicity known as the solar cycle. The solar cycle is driven by the solar dynamo, which is an interplay between magnetic fields, convection and rotation. ...
Image: Dwarf galaxy Kiso 5639
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, a firestorm of star birth is lighting up one end of the dwarf galaxy Kiso 5639.
Piercing the mystery of the cosmic origins of gold
Where does gold, the precious metal coveted by mortals through the ages, come from? How, where and when was it produced? Last August, a single astrophysical observation finally gave us the key to answer these questions. The ...
Rapid-response program to explore a double neutron star merger
Two years ago, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves for the first time, proving Einstein's theory of relativity and his prediction of their existence. ...
New research bridges scaling gap between astrophysics and cosmology
In their respective efforts to understand the universe and all it comprises, there is a telling gap between what cosmologists and astrophysicists study and how they study it: scale. Cosmologists typically focus on the large-scale ...
Overlooked treasure—the first evidence of exoplanets
Beneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storerooms safeguard more than a century of astronomy. Down the stairs and to the right is a basement of wonder. ...
Neutron star crash: 'The gift that will keep on giving'
The astrophysics world is abuzz after the first-ever observation of two neutron stars merging in a cataclysmic crash that left a rich trail of debris for scientists to comb through.
Gold origin confirmed with first ever gravitational wave sighting
Gold's origin in the Universe has finally been confirmed, after a gravitational wave source was seen and heard for the first time ever by an international collaboration of researchers, with astronomers at the University of ...
Astronomers first to see source of gravitational waves in visible light
For the first time, astronomers have observed in visible light a cataclysmic cosmic event that generated gravitational waves detected on Earth.
