Clean Bandit + Anne-Marie | Win Passes to see Clean Bandit + Anne-Marie at our next #AMPLiveSession on Friday, March 3rdSpontaneous 'dust traps': Astronomers discover a missing link in planet formation Planets are thought to form in the disks of dust and gas found around young stars. But astronomers have struggled to assemble a complete theory of their origin that explains how the initial dust develops into planetary systems. Scientists reach back in time to discover some of the most power-packed galaxies When the universe was young, a supermassive black hole—bloated to the bursting point with stupendous power—heaved out a jet of particle-infused energy that raced through the vastness of space at nearly the speed of light. Volcanic hydrogen spurs chances of finding exoplanet life Hunting for habitable exoplanets now may be easier: Cornell University astronomers report that hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the universe could improve the chances of locating life in the cosmos.
Stars regularly ripped apart by black holes in colliding galaxies Astronomers based at the University of Sheffield have found evidence that stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes 100 times more often than previously thought. First evidence of rocky planet formation in Tatooine system Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a double sun, 'Tatooine-like' system has been found for the first time by a UCL-led team of researchers. First ultra-compact dwarf galaxy in the group NGC 5044 found ()—A team of astronomers led by Favio Faifer of the National University of La Plata, Argentina, has discovered the first ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxy in an X-ray bright galaxy group designated NGC 5044. Image: The evolution of supernova 1987A Thirty years ago, on 23 February 1987, the light from a stellar explosion marking the death of a massive star arrived at Earth to shine in Southern Hemisphere skies. Constraining the chemistry of carbon-chain molecules in space
The interstellar medium of the Milky Way contains 5-10% of the total mass of the galaxy (excluding its dark matter) and consists primarily of hydrogen gas. There are small but important contributions from other gases as well, ... Hubble cooperates on galaxy cluster and cosmic background The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe. As it was created nearly ... The dawn of a new era for Supernova 1987a (Update) Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months following ... Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source of power for the light it is emitting.
Called an "enormous Lyman-alpha nebula" (ELAN), it is the brightest and among ... Neural networks promise sharpest ever images Telescopes, the workhorse instruments of astronomy, are limited by the size of the mirror or lens they use. Using 'neural nets', a form of artificial intelligence, a group of Swiss researchers now have a way to push past ... Exoplanets 101: Looking for life beyond our Solar System Seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our Galaxy called Trappist-1, revealed Wednesday, are the most recent—and arguably the most spectacular—in a string of exoplanet discoveries going back 20 years. Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system (Update) Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. They were detected as they passed in front of their parent star, the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Three of them lie in the habitable zone and ... Lowest-frequency accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar found
()—Astronomers have found the lowest-frequency accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar in the X-ray source known as IGR J17062−6143. By analyzing the data provided by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) spacecraft, ... Astronomers track changes around supermassive black hole in the NGC 2617 galaxy Members of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have been studying changes in the appearance of emissions from around the supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy called NGC ... Fermi finds possible dark matter ties in Andromeda galaxy NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a signal at the center of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that could indicate the presence of the mysterious stuff known as dark matter. The gamma-ray signal is similar to ... Prediction: More gas-giants will be found orbiting Sun-like stars New planetary formation models from Carnegie's Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting around Sun-like stars at distances similar to those of Jupiter and Saturn.
New data about two distant asteroids give a clue to the possible 'Planet Nine' The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS, suggest a possible common origin and give a clue to the existence of a planet beyond Pluto, the ... Tune your radio: Galaxies sing when forming stars A team led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found the most precise way ever to measure the rate at which stars form in galaxies using their radio emission at 1-10 Gigahertz frequency range. 'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining the coordinates of distant sources Our galaxy's gravitational field limits the accuracy of astrometric observations of distant objects. This is most apparent for objects that are obscured behind the central regions of the galaxy and the galactic plane, where ... The brightest, furthest pulsar in the universe ESA's XMM-Newton has found a pulsar – the spinning remains of a once-massive star – that is a thousand times brighter than previously thought possible.