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3-D Models Confirm Supernova’s Role in the Formation of Our Solar System
A soon to be published study from scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science provides the first fully three-dimensional models for how a shock wave from a supernova explosion triggered the...
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Data Reveals Swift J1644+57′s QPO Cycle
A newly published study describes the X-ray signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, that was observed the days following the last years discovery of Swift J1644+57, a quiescent black hole...
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Arepo Software Helps Simulate the Birth and Evolution of Galaxies
By using Harvard’s Odyssey high-performance supercomputer and new software called Arepo, a team of scientists developed a new computational approach that can accurately follow the birth and evolution...
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High-Velocity Galactic Winds Moving at 2,500 Kilometers Per Second
Using optical morphologies from the Hubble Space Telescope and infrared photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a team of astronomers found 29 objects with outflowing winds measuring...
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A closer Look at Interacting Galaxies
Scientists look at how galaxy collisions can distort the shapes of the galaxies involved, including the shapes and orientations of the regions around their central black holes, helping shed light on...
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Scientists Explore How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Cosmos
A newly published paper details how scientists created a model for exploring how electromagnetic fields help organize ionized gas in astrophysical settings, giving scientists a new way to explore how...
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NASA Discovers a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution
A newly published study shows that nearby disk galaxies unexpectedly reached their current state long after much of the universe’s star formation had ceased. A comprehensive study of hundreds of...
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Elliptical Galaxy M87 Hides a Gaseous Spiral at its Core
Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered that elliptical galaxy Centaurus A also shows signs of a spiral galaxy....
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Asteroid Belts and Their Potential Significance for Life
A newly published study from a team of scientists suggests and explains how asteroid belts may be important both for the existence of life and perhaps even for the evolution of complex life on a...
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NASA’s Fermi Measures Extragalactic Background Light
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a team of astronomers have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light...
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HR 8752 Reveals Crucial ‘Missing Link’ in the Evolution of Hypergiant Stars
A newly published study encompasses thirty years of research on hypergiant HR 8752, a star that is roughly 250 times brighter than our Sun and has crossed Yellow Evolutionary Void. A team of...
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Star Formation in the Universe has Decreased Drastically
In a new study, an international team of scientists established that the rate of star formation in the Universe is now only 1/30th of what it was at its peak and that this decline will continue. While...
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Spherical Phase of Planetary Nebula Abell 30
These new images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, which is located 5,500 light-years away from Earth, show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. A...
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Astronomers Identify a New Kind of Galaxy, “Green Bean Galaxies”
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has been identified as part of a new class of galaxies nicknamed “green bean galaxies.” A new galaxy class...
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Hubble Reveals Seven Faraway Galaxies
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 campaign revealed seven previously unseen populations of faraway galaxies, viewing them as they looked 350 to 600 million years after the big bang, more than 13...
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Study Challenges the Idea that a Supernova Prompted the Formation of the...
By testing meteorites, a team of scientists discovered that levels of iron 60 were uniform and low in early solar system material, suggesting that that the low levels of iron 60 probably came from the...
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Asteroid Impacts Leave Carbonaceous Material on Vesta
New images from NASA’s reveal that large impacts of asteroids may have altered Vesta’s shape and transferred carbonaceous material to the protoplanet and inner solar system. The protoplanet Vesta has...
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Nearby Star is At Least 13.2 Billion Years Old
Astronomers have discovered one of the oldest stars in the known universe. They believe it is at least 13.2 billion years old and formed shortly after the Big Bang. The astronomers announced their...
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Astronomers Identify Gas Around Modern Galaxies
Using Hubble’s two ultraviolet spectrographs, researchers from the University of Notre Dame have identified gaseous streams near galaxies through the absorption they imprint on the spectra of distant,...
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TW Hydrae has Enough Mass to Make the Equivalent of 50 Jupiters
Scientists believe the disk of material surrounding the 10 million year old star called TW Hydrae may be large enough to create an exotic planetary system with larger and more numerous planets than...
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