An artist’s conception of cold planet distribution throughout the Milky Way. For comparison, the cyan cone is the Kepler transit survey field. The inset shows an artistic conception of a planetary system in the Galactic bulge. Credit: Osaka UniversityCold Planets Exist Throughout the Galaxy-- in the Galactic LumpResearchers led by Osaka University and NASA...
Credit: ESA HUBBLENASA's Hubble telescope has brought us some impressive images for many years. In 2019, when it turned 29, it sent us this treasure of a shot of the crab galaxy.Now, it is back with a fantastic picture showcasing NGC 6717, which exists greater than 20,000 light-years from Planet in the constellation Sagittarius."NGC...
The fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy. Credit: MITBy definition, dwarf galaxies are tiny and dim, with just a fraction of the celebrities discovered in the galaxy and various other galaxies. There are, nevertheless, giants amongst the dwarfs: Ultra-diffuse galaxies, or...
Credit: Evgeniyqw/Adobe StockA brand-new type of inexpensive real estate has been suggested for future Mars colonists. All the astronauts require to do is pay in blood.Scientists from the College of Manchester proposed-- we guarantee this is not the story of a 90s straight-to-VHS sci-fi horror movie-- as a means to considerably decrease the price...
How unusual is our Solar System? In the 30 years since worlds researchers first discovered orbiting stars besides our Sunlight, we have found that planetary systems prevail in the Galaxy. However, most of them are quite various from the Solar System we understand.The worlds in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in stable...
Fast-moving debris from a supernova explosion triggered by a stellar collision crashes into material thrown out earlier, and the shocks cause bright radio emission seen by the VLA. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSFAstronomers have found remarkable evidence that a great void or neutron star spiraled its way right into the core of a buddy star...
Cosmos Display at the front of the Antikythera Mechanism, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon, and five planets as well as the phase of the Moon and the nodes of the Moon. Credit: © 2020 Tony FreethResearchers at UCL have fixed a significant piece of the challenge that makes up the ancient Greek...
Image of the fireball in 28 February. (Image credit: UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided)Scientists Track Meteorite Fall Over Cheltenham, UKMonica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences in the Open University, related who on February 28th at 21:54 GMT, around the time of the late evening news in the UK, an extra news story...
Vega is the fifth brightest star, excluding the sun, that can be seen from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)Signs Indicate the Presence of a New Hot Planet Near the Famous Star Vega.A possible searing-hot planet was spotted by astronomers, orbiting Vega, one of the brightest and most known stars in the skyApproximately the size of...
