Hubble glimpses globular cluster NGC 6544
Phys.org - Fri 23 Jun 23The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This cluster of tightly bound stars lies more than 8,000 light-years away from ...
Discovery of a brown dwarf hotter than the sun
Phys.org - Wed 21 Jun 23An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet-like object that is hotter than the sun. Their report has been accepted for publication in the journal Nature Astronomy and is currently ...
Astronomers explore the properties of ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1
Phys.org - Wed 21 Jun 23Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have investigated an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as UGC 9050-Dw1. Results of the study, published June 9 ...
Source Uncovered for the Famous Geminids Meteor Shower
Discover Magazine - Tue 20 Jun 23The wintry meteor show may have had its origins from a catastrophic event, the remains of which are still spread across the solar system.
A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 years
Newscientist - Sun 18 Jun 23A distant star called FU Orionis has been shining extraordinarily bright for the last 85 years, and it may be because it is incinerating a young, nearby planet that could be fully consumed in ...
Dust in the wind: Forecasting storms with AI
Phys.org - Fri 16 Jun 23Dust storms are not only a nuisance for anyone trying to keep their house spick and span, they also pose a very real health hazard and are a major ecological concern. Respiratory problems caused ...
Serene Geminid meteor shower has a rather catastrophic origin
Interesting Engineering - Fri 16 Jun 23The ...
Scientists accidentally discover a Tatooine-like exoplanet that orbits two stars, Interesting Engineering - Tue 13 Jun 23Webb telescope finds water vapor and maps temperature of ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet, Interesting Engineering - Thu 1 Jun 23
Algae blooms increase snowmelt in the Pacific Northwest by 20%
Phys.org - Thu 15 Jun 23Algae that commonly grow on snow in the Pacific Northwest have been ignored in melt models, but their presence significantly increases snowmelt compared with clean, white snow, according to ...
Dirtiest snow-year in the Wasatch accelerated snowmelt by 17 days in Utah, finds study
Phys.org - Thu 15 Jun 23As the shrinking Great Salt Lake exposes an ever-growing area of its lakebed, wind-blown dust becomes more dangerous for those living in Utah's most populous region. It also makes the snowpack ...
Astronomers Finally Found the Origin of the Strangest Meteor Shower
Inverse - Thu 15 Jun 23The Geminids, one of the most ample meteor showers of the year, is both bright and weird.Every December, when Earth stumbles across the field of space debris strewn out across the orbit of 3200 ...
Old, ultra-faint and metal-poor star cluster discovered
Phys.org - Thu 15 Jun 23An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new star cluster (SC) as part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. The newfound cluster, designated DELVE 6, ...
Astronomers scrutinize scorching-hot exoplanet
Phys.org - Wed 14 Jun 23An international team led by Stefan Pelletier, a Ph.D. student at Université de Montréal's Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets have made a detailed study of the extremely hot giant ...
Astronomers find rare planet circling two stars like Star Wars’s Tatooine
The Independent - Wed 14 Jun 23Iconic shot of Luke Skywalker staring at Tatooine’s horizon that has two suns shows what a circumbinary system would look like
Astronomers discover rare planet resembling the home of Star Wars' Luke Skywalker
ABC Science - Tue 13 Jun 23An international team of astronomers discovers a rare multi-planet system that closely resembles the home of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker, Tatooine.
The Tarantula Nebula shouldn't be forming stars. What's going on?
Phys.org - Tue 13 Jun 23The Tarantula Nebula is a star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years away and is highly luminous for a non-stellar object. It's the brightest ...
Astronomers Discover an Exciting, Rare Planet Straight Out of Star Wars
Inverse - Mon 12 Jun 23Scientists have just announced the discovery of a planet that resembles Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home in Star Wars where the sky is adorned by two stars.The finding was hiding in plain sight, ...
Flaring star could be down to young planet's disk inferno
Phys.org - Mon 12 Jun 23The mystery of a stellar flare a trillion times more powerful than the largest of solar flares may have been solved by a team of scientists who believe a massive young planet is burning up in ...
A new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system identified
Phys.org - Mon 12 Jun 23An international team of astronomers has announced the second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system.
A new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system identified, ScienceDaily - Tue 13 Jun 23Astronomers Discover BEBOP-1c: Tatooine-Like Exoplanet Orbits Twin Stars in a Multiplanetary System, SciTechDaily - Mon 12 Jun 23
A new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system identified, Scienmag - Mon 12 Jun 23
A new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system identified, Eurekalert - Mon 12 Jun 23
Astronomers observe giant tails of helium escaping Jupiter-like planet
Phys.org - Wed 7 Jun 23A team of astronomers has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory to discover some of the longest tails of gas yet ...
Astronomers observe giant tails of helium escaping Jupiter-like planet, SpaceDaily - Fri 9 Jun 23This Super-Hot Exoplanet Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
Inverse - Thu 1 Jun 23Four-hundred light years away, exoplanet WASP-18b is up to some weird stuff.There’s nothing like WASP-18b in our Solar System; it’s a gargantuan gas giant 10 times more massive than Jupiter, ...
NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter-like exoplanet's atmosphere
Phys.org - Wed 31 May 23400 light-years out there is something that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its star that is slightly larger ...
A violent collision likely created the Geminids meteor shower
CNN - Wed 21 Jun 23 Origin of the Geminids meteor shower has been a mystery, until now, Earth.com - Sat 17 Jun 23Astronomers discover planetary system that resembles Tatooine from Star Wars, Earth.com - Mon 12 Jun 23
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Photo Reveals Stunning Globular Star Clusters M15, Techtimes - Thu 15 Jun 23
New 'Star Wars' Planet Is Nothing Like Tatooine, Newsweek - Wed 14 Jun 23
Giant Magellan Telescope Will Be Equipped With Large Earth Finder To Search for Biosignatures in Exoplanets, The Science Times - Wed 14 Jun 23
NASA Catches Shark Nebula's Starry Jaws in Stunning Image, Techtimes - Wed 14 Jun 23
Multiple Tatooine Worlds From Same Star System Picked Up For the Second Time; What Are These Planets?, The Science Times - Tue 13 Jun 23
Second Ever Planet Found In a “Tatooine System” Orbiting Two Suns, IFLScience - Mon 12 Jun 23
From Helix to Carina Nebula: Here Are Some Stunning Nebula Shots That Depict the Beauty of the Cosmos, The Science Times - Sun 11 Jun 23
What's the True Color of the Sun? NASA Shows All Visible Colors of Our Big Star, Techtimes - Sun 11 Jun 23
NASA's SOFIA Captures Magnetic Maelstrom in the Tarantula Nebula, Techtimes - Fri 9 Jun 23
NASA Releases Animation of Sun-Like Star Devouring a Planet, Techtimes - Tue 6 Jun 23
NASA Releases Awe-inspiring Image of Star-forming Region Called Trifid Nebula, Techtimes - Mon 5 Jun 23
JWST Sees Water Vapor In The Atmosphere Of Sizzling Exoplanet, IFLScience - Thu 1 Jun 23
Exoplanet Wasp-18 B Has Strong Magnetic Field, Shows Signs of Water Vapor [Study], The Science Times - Thu 1 Jun 23
Dust in Wind: Forecasting Storms with AI, Mirage News - Fri 16 Jun 23
Algae blooms boost Pacific Northwest snowmelt by 20%, Mirage News - Thu 15 Jun 23
Wasatch snowmelt accelerated by 17 days due to dirtiest snow-year, Mirage News - Thu 15 Jun 23
UdeM Astronomers Study Scorching Exoplanet, Mirage News - Wed 14 Jun 23
Gemini North Finds Rock-Forming Elements in Exoplanet Atmosphere, Mirage News - Wed 14 Jun 23
New Tatooine-like Multi-Planetary System Identified, Mirage News - Mon 12 Jun 23
Year’s Best Meteor Shower Caused By ‘Violent Creation,’ Say Scientists
Forbes - Sat 17 Jun 23The asteroid that causes December's Geminid meteor shower—one of the best of the year—must have suffered a sudden, violent event, according to new research.
'Weird' game of cosmic tug-of-war in the Tarantula Nebula weaves up new stars
SPACE.com - Thu 15 Jun 23Astronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding that powerful magnetic fields ensure its survival and regulate ...
Geminid meteor shower spawned by violent asteroid smashup
SPACE.com - Thu 15 Jun 23The Geminid meteor shower, which happens every December, comes from a space rock with a comet-like tail. New research suggests a violent origin story. ...
New 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet has a weird orbit and another planet may be to blame
SPACE.com - Wed 14 Jun 23Astronomers have used NASA's TESS telescope to discover a new 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet with a strange orbit. ...
Scientists Discover 'Tatooine-Like' Planet
Extremetech - Wed 14 Jun 23The planet itself probably isn't much like Tatooine, but its orbit sure is.
New $1 Billion Telescope Will Be Fitted With A ‘Large Earth Finder’
Forbes - Tue 13 Jun 23The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will provide high-resolution images for exoplanet research and other areas of astrophysics—and it could find Earth-like planets.
Tatooine-Like Exoplanet BEBOP-1c Discovered Orbiting Twin Suns
Ubergizmo - Tue 13 Jun 23Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery, finding a unique exoplanet system that resembles Tatooine, the fictional home of Luke Skywalker (don’t forget to check out our Star ...
Astronomers discover 2nd-ever 'Tatooine' star system with multiple planets orbiting multiple suns
Livescience - Tue 13 Jun 23For only the second time, astronomers have discovered multiple "Tatooine worlds," or circumbinary planets, in the same star system. ...
Astronomers Find A Planet With Twin Suns Just Like Tatooine In Star Wars
HotHardware - Tue 13 Jun 23An international team of astronomers has discovered the second-ever multiplanetary circumbinary system, giving Star Wars fans more hope that one day they might be able to travel to a Tatooine-like ...
Circumbinary solar systems — Second-ever “Tatooine” system discovered
ZME Science - Tue 13 Jun 23Astronomers have discovered only the second known circumbinary planet system, with the planet named BEBOP-1c.
New ‘Tatooine’ Found: Second Star System Where Planets Orbit Two Suns
Forbes - Mon 12 Jun 23Artist's concept illustrating Kepler-16b, the first directly detected circumbinary planet, which is a planet that orbits two stars.
New Tatooine-like exoplanet found orbiting twin suns
SPACE.com - Mon 12 Jun 23The discovery of the new planet BEBOP-1c confirms the 2nd-ever known planetary system orbiting twin stars similar to the fictional planet Tatooine of Star Wars ...
The REAL Star Wars planet! Scientists discover a new world in a Tatooine-like system
Daily Mail - Mon 12 Jun 23Planets that orbit two stars was until recently thought to be in the realm of science fiction. Now experts at the University of Birmingham announce the discovery of one such planet, called TOI-1338 ...
25 gorgeous nebula photos that capture the beauty of the universe
Livescience - Sun 11 Jun 23Nebulas — colorful clouds of expanding gas and dust — have long captivated stargazers with their beauty. Here are 25 of the most stunning nebulas in the universe. ...
James Webb Space Telescope finds water in super-hot exoplanet's atmosphere
SPACE.com - Thu 1 Jun 23The James Webb Space Telescope spotted water in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-18 b, which reaches nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,700 degrees Celsius). ...
Western US States Are Turning to Cloud Seeding to Fight Historic Droughts
SingularityHub - Thu 15 Jun 23Amid the search for solutions to global warming, various forms of geoengineering have gained traction. The more wild ideas—like spraying dust into space to block out some of the sun’s rays—are ...
Can I Have This Dance?
Astrobites - Tue 13 Jun 23Title: Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): Diverse outcomes of binary-disk interactionsAuthors: Yapeng Zhang, Christian Ginski, Jane Huang, Alice Zurlo, Hervé ...
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Joel Kastner
Astrobites - Wed 7 Jun 23In this series of posts, we sit down with a few of the keynote speakers of the 242nd AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here, ...
Unraveling Cosmic Mysteries: Celestial Monsters and the Origins of Globular Clusters
SciTechDaily - Fri 23 Jun 23Researchers from the universities of Geneva, Paris, and Barcelona have uncovered strong evidence that the peculiarities seen in sizable star clusters can be explained by...
Researchers demystify the unusual origin of the Geminids meteor shower
ScienceDaily - Sun 18 Jun 23Princeton researchers used observations from NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission to deduce that it was likely a violent, catastrophic event -- such as a high-speed collision with another body ...
Dirtiest snow-year in the Wasatch accelerated snowmelt by 17 days
Newswise - Thu 15 Jun 23In a new study, University of Utah researchers analyzed the impact of dust on snow during the 2022 season. They found that 2022 had the most dust deposition events and the highest snowpack dust ...
Dirtiest snow-year in the Wasatch accelerated snowmelt by 17 days, Scienmag - Thu 15 Jun 23Dirtiest snow-year in the Wasatch accelerated snowmelt by 17 days, Eurekalert - Thu 15 Jun 23
Scientists shed light on the unusual origin of a familiar meteor shower
SpaceDaily - Thu 15 Jun 23Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past Earth, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in the night sky. Now, NASA's Parker ...
Gemini North detects multiple rock-forming elements in the atmosphere of a scorching exoplanet
Scienmag - Wed 14 Jun 23WASP-76b is a strange world. Located 634 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Pisces, the Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits its host star at an exceptionally close distance ...
Gemini North detects multiple rock-forming elements in the atmosphere of a scorching exoplanet, Eurekalert - Wed 14 Jun 23A scorching-hot exoplanet scrutinized by UdeM astronomers
Eurekalert - Wed 14 Jun 23Through the Gemini-North Telescope in Hawai’i, the chemical composition of WASP-76 b is revealed in unprecedented detail, giving new insights also into the composition of giant planets. The ...
Astronomers Discover New Multiplanetary Circumbinary System
Sci.News - Tue 13 Jun 23Circumbinary planetary systems contain planets that orbit around two stars in the center instead of just one, like in our Solar System. The post Astronomers Discover New Multiplanetary Circumbinary ...
Flaring star could be down to young planet's disc inferno
ScienceDaily - Tue 13 Jun 23New simulations offer new explanation for star's 85-year flare. In this scenario, a young giant planet is burning up very close to its star, suggesting solar systems may have hosted many of ...
Flaring star could be down to young planet’s disc inferno, Scienmag - Mon 12 Jun 23Flaring star could be down to young planet’s disc inferno, Eurekalert - Mon 12 Jun 23
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique
SpaceDaily - Tue 13 Jun 23Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 13, 2023 An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new type of planet that orbits two stars - what is known as a circumbinary ...
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique, Newswise - Mon 12 Jun 23Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique, Science Blog - Mon 12 Jun 23
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique, Scienmag - Mon 12 Jun 23
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique, Eurekalert - Mon 12 Jun 23
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique, Mirage News - Mon 12 Jun 23
New Multi-Planet System Resembles Tatooine, Mirage News - Mon 12 Jun 23
Young Planet’s Disc Inferno Possibly Causing Flaring Star, Mirage News - Mon 12 Jun 23
Canadian NIRISS Instrument on Webb Maps Ultra-Hot Jupiter’s Atmosphere, Mirage News - Wed 31 May 23
Water Traces, Temperature Variations Confirmed in Super-Hot Gas Giant’s Atmosphere, Mirage News - Wed 31 May 23
Webb’s NIRISS Maps Atmosphere of Ultra-Hot Jupiter, Mirage News - Wed 31 May 23
Canadian NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter atmosphere
SpaceDaily - Thu 1 Jun 23Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 01, 2023 There's an intriguing exoplanet out there - 400 light-years out there - that is so tantalising that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery ...
NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter's atmosphere
ScienceDaily - Wed 31 May 23There's an intriguing exoplanet out there -- 400 light-years out there -- that is so tantalizing that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around ...
NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter’s atmosphere, Scienmag - Wed 31 May 23NIRISS instrument on Webb maps an ultra-hot Jupiter’s atmosphere, Eurekalert - Wed 31 May 23