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Research Explains Origin of Energetic Electrons Mercury’s Hermean Magnetotail

The unusual readings gathered by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission in 2009 have been explained by theoretical physicists by using simulations.

19 Apr 2018

Massive Galaxy Cluster Captured by Hubble Space Telescope

Seen in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a colossal galaxy cluster, brilliantly luminous in the darkness. In spite of its beauty, this cluster is given a clearly prosaic name - PLCK G308.3-20.2.

17 Apr 2018

New Instrument Successful in the Study of Newborn Stars

Researchers at ETH Zurich have partially developed and assembled an instrument, which has now been specifically successful in analyzing newborn stars that are still surrounded by dust and gas.

16 Apr 2018

Hubble Space Telescope Reveals the Farthest Individual Star

Icarus, an enormous blue star located over halfway across the universe, is the farthest individual star to be ever viewed.

3 Apr 2018

Source of the Magellanic Stream Identified

A 300,000 light-years long cloud of gas has been arching around the Milky Way, deflected away from two dwarf galaxies orbiting our galaxy.

29 Mar 2018

Galaxies Have Been Found to Rotate Once Every Billion Years

A discovery by astronomers shows that irrespective of their size, all galaxies rotate once in every billion years. $$IMAGE$$ It is well known that one day is the time taken by the Earth to spin around on its axis o...

14 Mar 2018

Study Discloses New High-Resolution Map of Galactic Center

A new research headed by Pat Roche, professor of astrophysics from The University of Oxford, and Chris Packham, associate professor of physics and astronomy from The University of Texas at San Antonio, has disclosed a fresh high-resolution map of the magnetic field lines in dust and gas circulating around the supermassive black hole located at the center of Earth’s galaxy.

26 Feb 2018