Gut microbes could allow space travelers to stay healthy on long voyages
Review highlights that treatments targeting the gut microbiome could protect space travelers against negative health effects of space travel.
Sep 8th, 2020
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How to have a blast like a black hole
Scientists use extremely intense laser pulses to create magnetized-plasma conditions comparable to those surrounding a black hole, research that may help explain the still mysterious X-rays that can be emitted from some celestial bodies.
Sep 7th, 2020
Read moreMisaligned planet-forming rings around triple young stars
An international team of astronomers found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple star GW Orionis. The system has three large, misaligned rings with sufficient dust for planet formation. The misaligned rings might have been formed by a hidden planet between the rings, which would provide a clue to understand planet formation around a multiple star system.
Sep 4th, 2020
Read moreFirst ever detection of monster black hole collision, 150 times heavier than the Sun (w/video)
Astronomers have reported the first ever direct observation of the most massive black hole merger to date. Two monster black holes collided to form an even more massive object - an intermediate-mass black hole, about 150 times as heavy as the Sun.
Sep 2nd, 2020
Read moreA disk of gas would explain mysterious light changes observed in Sagittarius constellation
Astronomers analyzed 18.5 years of data, to propose an answer to the enigmatic variations seen in the binary system.
Sep 2nd, 2020
Read moreA direct view of star/disk interactions
Astrophysicists have for the first time directly observed the columns of matter that build up newborn stars.
Aug 31st, 2020
Read moreGalaxy simulations shed light on Milky Way's origins
Astronomers have produced the most advanced galaxy simulations of their kind, which could help reveal the origins of the Milky Way and dozens of small neighboring dwarf galaxies.
Aug 31st, 2020
Read moreGravitational waves can show when core of dying star breaks down into free quarks
The quantum chromodynamics phase transition in core-collapse supernovae has been examined for the first time, using state-of-the-art multi-dimensional supernova simulations and unique imprints of such a phase transition on the emitted gravitational-wave and neutrino signals have been detected.
Aug 31st, 2020
Read moreHubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
In a landmark study, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor.
Aug 27th, 2020
Read moreContinuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole
A team of astronomers has detected for the first time the constant infrared emission from winds produced during the eruption of a black hole in an X-ray binary.
Aug 27th, 2020
Read moreBacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates
Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermia.
Aug 26th, 2020
Read moreTracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Scientists confirm the presence of acetonitrile in a distant interstellar gas cloud using a radio telescope.
Aug 25th, 2020
Read moreAstronomers explore a 'TIE Fighter' active galaxy
Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and found it has a strikingly familiar shape. In the process, they discovered the object, called TXS 0128+554, experienced two powerful bouts of activity in the last century.
Aug 25th, 2020
Read moreCosmic dance: A solution to the Galactic bar paradox
The very heart of our Milky Way harbours a large bar-like structure of stars whose size and rotational speed have been strongly contested in the last years. A new study has found an elegant solution to the discrepancies found in different observational studies.
Aug 25th, 2020
Read moreAncient star explosions revealed in the deep sea
A mystery surrounding the space around our solar system is unfolding thanks to supernova-signatures found in deep-sea sediments.
Aug 25th, 2020
Read moreRogue planets could outnumber the stars
An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets - planets that float in space without orbiting a sun - than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.
Aug 21st, 2020
Read moreSpinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
At a distance of more than a thousand times the shadow of the black hole, the core of a plasma jet suddenly lit up. How the energy for this jet could get there as if through an invisible chimney was not yet known.
Aug 21st, 2020
Read moreMicroscopic deformation of a neutron star inferred from a distance of 4500 light-years
Researchers have inferred continuous gravitational waves from a neutron star and have estimated the stellar microscopic deformation from a distance of about 4500 light-years.
Aug 20th, 2020
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