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Newfound Star Cluster Could Reveal New Insights into Milky Way’s History

The oldest stars of the Milky Way galaxy are found within its outskirts. However, in this celestial retirement community, astronomers have observed something unpredicted—a cluster of young stars.

8 Jan 2020

TESS Discovers TOI 1338 b, the First Circumbinary Planet to be Observed

Wolf Cukier’s job as a summer intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2019 was to investigate variations in star brightness that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captures and uploads to the Planet Hunters TESS citizen science project.

8 Jan 2020

Astronomers Survey the Gigantic Rubin’s Galaxy Using Hubble Telescope

Astronomers have spotted UGC 2885, an incredible spiral galaxy that might be called the “Godzilla galaxy” since it may be the largest ever galaxy in the local universe.

7 Jan 2020

New Technique Uses Oxygen Signal to Look for Life on Exoplanets

A new technique has been created by researchers to detect oxygen in the atmospheres of exoplanets. This technique could speed up the search for life on exoplanets.

7 Jan 2020

New VLA Observations Show 13 Dwarf Galaxies Hosting Massive Black Holes

In the pursuit to gain deeper insight into the mechanism behind the formation of massive black holes in the early Universe, astronomers have obtained vital clues by discovering 13 such black holes in dwarf galaxies located within a billion light-years from Earth.

6 Jan 2020

Astronomers Discover Mysterious Hydrogen Gas Ring Around Distant Galaxy

A mysterious hydrogen gas ring surrounding a faraway galaxy has been discovered by a group of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune, India.

3 Jan 2020

New Methods Help Measure Buoyancy Waves Caused by Turbulence

The solar wind striking the dayside magnetosphere of the Earth leads to turbulence, just like how air does over a wing.

23 Dec 2019

Pulsar with Faint Gamma-Ray Glow Spanning Huge Part of Sky Discovered

A faint yet widespread glow of high-energy light surrounding a neighboring pulsar has been detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

20 Dec 2019

Study Offers Vital Data on Interaction Between Dark and Luminous Matter

Low-surface-brightness galaxies have helped in acquiring new data and reaching significant conclusions on dark matter, which is one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos.

19 Dec 2019