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25 Jan 2021, 15:00 UTC
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed a unique planetary system consisting of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as they orbit their central star. The sizes and masses of the planets, however, don’t follow such an orderly pattern. This finding challenges current theories of planet formation.
ESA’s exoplanet watcher Cheops reveals unique planetary system
25 Jan 2021, 15:00 UTC
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed a unique planetary system consisting of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as they orbit their central star. The sizes and masses of the planets, however, don’t follow such an orderly pattern. This finding challenges current theories of planet formation.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
22 Jan 2021, 14:09 UTC
Astronomers Discover First Cloudless, Jupiter-Like Planet
22 Jan 2021, 14:09 UTC
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
21 Jan 2021, 18:42 UTC
Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. Despite the incredible quality of this image, taken from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 4535 has a hazy, somewhat ghostly, appearance when viewed from a smaller telescope. This led amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland to nickname NGC 4535 the “Lost Galaxy” in the 1950s.
Hubble Takes Portrait of the ‘Lost Galaxy’
21 Jan 2021, 18:42 UTC
Located in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), around 50 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy NGC 4535 is truly a stunning sight to behold. Despite the incredible quality of this image, taken from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 4535 has a hazy, somewhat ghostly, appearance when viewed from a smaller telescope. This led amateur astronomer Leland S. Copeland to nickname NGC 4535 the “Lost Galaxy” in the 1950s.
ESO Top News
20 Jan 2021, 10:33 UTC
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Using the ALMA, astronomers have seen a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas.
ALMA captures distant colliding galaxy dying out as it loses the ability to form stars
20 Jan 2021, 10:33 UTC
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Using the ALMA, astronomers have seen a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas.
HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases
14 Jan 2021, 21:30 UTC
Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they retraced the speedy shrapnel from the blast to calculate a more accurate estimate of the location and time of the stellar detonation.
Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
14 Jan 2021, 21:30 UTC
Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they retraced the speedy shrapnel from the blast to calculate a more accurate estimate of the location and time of the stellar detonation.
NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features
14 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC
What’s fueling the massive ejection of gas and dust out of the Cigar galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 82?
Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy
14 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC
What’s fueling the massive ejection of gas and dust out of the Cigar galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 82?
NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features
14 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC
Magnetic Chaos Hidden Within the Whirlpool Galaxy
14 Jan 2021, 17:15 UTC
HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases
12 Jan 2021, 17:00 UTC
How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total number of galaxies by counting everything visible in a Hubble deep field and then multiplying them by the total area of the sky. But other galaxies are too faint and distant to directly detect. Yet while we can’t count them, their light suffuses space with a feeble glow.
New Horizons Spacecraft Answers Question: How Dark Is Space?
12 Jan 2021, 17:00 UTC
How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total number of galaxies by counting everything visible in a Hubble deep field and then multiplying them by the total area of the sky. But other galaxies are too faint and distant to directly detect. Yet while we can’t count them, their light suffuses space with a feeble glow.
Carnegie Science
12 Jan 2021, 15:28 UTC
In a case of comic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole gives off bursts of energy every 114 days as it tears off chunks of an orbiting star.
Mistaken identity: A presumed supernova is actually something much rarer
12 Jan 2021, 15:28 UTC
In a case of comic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole gives off bursts of energy every 114 days as it tears off chunks of an orbiting star.
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