New universe simulation prompts breakthrough discoveries in astrophysics
An international team of astrophysicists has released IllustrisTNG, the most advanced universe model of its kind.
Posted: Feb 1st, 2018
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Galaxies that feed on other galaxies
An international team of astronomers finds signs that the outer halo of the Milky Way contains stellar remains of massive dwarf galaxies that were devoured by our own.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2018
Read moreEmission from the centre of a galaxy has a serpentine shape
An international group of scientists has discovered a peculiar spiral jet with many twists.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2018
Read moreGlory from gloom
A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. This dense cloud is a star-forming region called Lupus 3, where dazzlingly hot stars are born from collapsing masses of gas and dust.
Posted: Jan 31st, 2018
Read moreStellar embryos in nearby dwarf galaxy contain surprisingly complex organic molecules
New observations in the Large Magellanic Cloud have uncovered the surprisingly clear chemical 'fingerprints' of the complex organic molecules methanol, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate.
Posted: Jan 30th, 2018
Read moreStellar magnetism: What's behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?
Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system).
Posted: Jan 30th, 2018
Read moreNewborns or survivors? The unexpected matter found in hostile Black Hole winds
New theory predicts origins of molecules in destructive cosmic outflows.
Posted: Jan 30th, 2018
Read moreApplying machine learning to the universe's mysteries
Scientists teach machines to analyze simulations of exotic subatomic 'soup'.
Posted: Jan 30th, 2018
Read moreAstrochemists reveal the magnetic secrets of methanol
Scientists have solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic fields in space using methanol, the simplest form of alcohol. Their results give astronomers a new way of investigating how massive stars are born.
Posted: Jan 29th, 2018
Read moreSurface explosion sets off final journey of dying star
Scientists discover supernova's ignition mechanism.
Posted: Jan 29th, 2018
Read moreChasing dark matter with the oldest stars in the Milky Way
How an international team of researchers is constraining the speed of invisible and undetectable dark matter.
Posted: Jan 24th, 2018
Read moreAstronomers produce first detailed images of surface of giant star
An international team of astronomers has produced the first detailed images of the surface of a giant star outside our solar system, revealing a nearly circular, dust-free atmosphere with complex areas of moving material, known as convection cells or granules.
Posted: Jan 23rd, 2018
Read moreNew technique for finding life on Mars
Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets.
Posted: Jan 18th, 2018
Read moreHubble weighs in on mass of 3 million billion suns
In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns -- so it's little wonder that it has earned the nickname of El Gordo ('the Fat One' in Spanish).
Posted: Jan 17th, 2018
Read moreOdd behavior of star reveals lonely black hole hiding in giant star cluster
Astronomers have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun -- the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster and the first found by directly detecting its gravitational pull.
Posted: Jan 17th, 2018
Read moreThe universe up close
MUSE instrument allows deepest spectroscopic observations ever.
Posted: Jan 15th, 2018
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