Astropular

[...] A high-speed hydrogen cloud on a crash course with the Milky Way appears to be an exotic interloper, preliminary data suggest. The cometlike streak, called the [...]

[...] A cluster of young, pulsating stars discovered in the far side of the Milky Way may mark the location of a previously unseen dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy hidden behind [...]

[...] the infinite workings of the universe began with the simple wonder of looking up at the Milky Way on a quiet night on a camping trip. Berger, who is married to the artist, Donna Berger, is now a [...]

[...] millions of astronomy fans worldwide. Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, and is 2.5 million light years far. The picture is of 1.5 billion pixels and is 1000 [...]

[...] If you’ve been having trouble remembering how many planets are in the solar system after Pluto’s unceremonious demotion, get ready to revise your understanding of the universe [...]

[...] This information will be useful in understanding the orbits of planets in the outer solar system, and will have other widespread implications for future research. The study was led by Dayton [...]

[...] . For the first time ever, an emissary from Earth had landed softly on a world in the outer solar system. “I distinctly recall the dreamy feeling of being in one universe one moment and in another [...]

[...] solar material erupt off the sun, spewing into space and racing toward the very edges of the solar system. These ejections, called CMEs, are caused by magnetic energy building up on the sun, which [...]

[...] -Clay the 2015 Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy for her theoretical studies of star and planet formation. Presented annually in recognition of a significant contribution to observational or [...]

[...] . This discovery may now help to pinpoint the beginning of what we might call the “era of planet formation,” he added. In the search for life, Earth-sized planets seem like a safe bet. But because [...]

[...] how multiple star systems form is essential for grasping phenomena such as star and planet formation, planet frequency and habitability,” said Dr Jaime Pineda from the Institute for [...]

[...] for the project. Kerton said all of that classifying is helping astronomers study and map star formation within the galaxy. [...]

[...] the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. In addition to planet and star formation, Murray-Clay is interested in the extrasolar planetary systems recently discovered by [...]

[...] Nature. “The number of stars in a system is determined during the earliest stage of star formation but critical processes occurring then are usually hidden by dense clouds of dust and [...]

[...] ’s general theory of relativity. PET scans use 3D body-imaging made possible by particle physics. Even the World Wide Web serving you this article was a creation of physics— [...]

[...] It was found that such an idea could exist and (along with some quite general arguments from particle physics) the researchers arrived at some surprising results. [...]

[...] so, to date not one astrophysicist has been able to detect Dark Matter directly. Particle physics (branch of physics that deals with subatomic particles) gives us some clues of what Dark [...]

[...] , and women in STEM. NASA astronauts Terry Virts and Barry E. “Butch” Wilmore and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Christoforetti called in from aboard the International Space [...]

[...] team. “It’s disappointing,” he said in a telephone interview Friday after the European Space Agency publicized the results. “It’s like finding out there’s no Santa Claus. But it’ [...]

[...] days before the CME to track how the event grew over time. They used observations from the European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, and the Japanese Aerospace [...]

[...] and dim phases of a quasar in a single source. As described in an upcoming edition of The Astrophysical Journal, Yale-led researchers spotted a quasar that had dimmed by a factor of six or seven, [...]

[...] , drastic brightness changes went on for two months. According to analysis published in Astrophysical Journal, a ringed planet like Saturn is in the star’s system. But unlike Saturn, this ringed [...]

[...] our galaxy. Researchers reported on the star and its planetary system Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal. Named Kepler-444, the star is about 11.2 billion years old. That’s 2 1/2 times [...]