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Space
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.
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Large, Bright Early Galaxies: A Win for Modified Gravity Over Dark Matter
How did the first galaxies after the Big Bang form and evolve? Were they small and attributed to dark matter or were they large and some other force attributed to their growth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers challenged longstanding hypotheses that…
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Astronomers’ theory of galaxy formation may be upended
New research from Case Western Reserve University questions standard model The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter helped the earliest stars and galaxies…
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“Interstellar Tunnel” Found Towards The Constellation Of Centaurus By eROSITA Space Telescope
A team of astronomers using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey has modeled the hot gas in our local stellar neighborhood, finding a curious “interstellar tunnel” towards the constellation of Centaurus. The “tunnel” potentially connects our own local bubble to a neighboring superbubble. Our Solar System resides in a 1,000-light-year-wide “Local Bubble”, sometimes called the…
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The Westfield High School Space and Astronomy Club invited the Girl Scouts ‘Westiies’ Service Unit to learn about and gaze on the night sky on Nov. 8.
2 / 4 Special to The Westfield News WHS Astronomy Club invite girl scouts to gaze at the stars Westfield High School Space and Astronomy Club invited the Girl Scout “Westies” Service Unit, which consists of eight troops in Westfield and West Springfield, to learn about the night school at an observing on Nov. 8…
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Astronomers catch a glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet | University of Arizona News
Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group of researchers, observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet, which is the size of Jupiter but only a tenth of its mass, is found to have east-west asymmetry in its atmosphere, meaning that…
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Space for Everyone: How to Help Astronomers
Astronomy has taken giant leaps since Galileo first looked at the sky through his handmade telescope. Today, scientists study the sky from enormous observatories or incredibly complex spacecraft worth billions of dollars. But this doesn’t mean that astronomy is a closed club, accessible only for the few chosen ones. On the contrary, the data collected…
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Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies
Every day, invisible to the human eye, thousands of enigmatic flashes of cosmic energy known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) erupt across the sky, releasing as much energy in milliseconds as the sun does in a day. Thanks to their fleeting nature, scientists have often had to rely on luck just to observe FRBs, let…
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Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies
Every day, invisible to the human eye, thousands of enigmatic flashes of cosmic energy known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) erupt across the sky, releasing as much energy in milliseconds as the sun does in a day. Thanks to their fleeting nature, scientists have often had to rely on luck just to observe FRBs, let…
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University of Sharjah organises international symposium on space communications
The symposium aims to improve the usage of space resources in the Asia-Pacific region and foster a common understanding of space communications among the Member States. A lecture taking place at SAASST. Image for illustrative purposes only. Credit: SAASST.ae The University of Sharjah (UoS), in collaboration with the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Science…
