Scientists spotted an exoplanet spiraling into its star
A whirling exoplanet slowly veering toward extinction has been found by scientists. The exoplanet in question is Kepler-1658b, so named because it was found by the Kepler spacecraft….
You’ll get goosebumps looking at this 9-gigapixel Milky Way image with 84 million stars
But the VISTA telescope gave us one of the most accurate depictions of the Milky Way ever, enabling astronomers to catalog an astounding 84 million stars. Think about…
La destrucción de un planeta, posible explicación del inquietante comportamiento de la estrella de Tabby
Cuando en octubre de 2015 los astrónomos, encabezados por Tabetha (Tabby) Boyajian, se toparon con la estrella KIC 8462852, al principio no sabían que acababan de dar con…
NASA Just Revealed Actual Sound Of Black Holes And It’s… Haunting!
Have you ever listened to the sound of a black hole? In case you were wondering — or in case you thought it was unsettlingly quiet — NASA…
Nuevo Estudio Revela Nueva Evidencia de Un océano Habitable en Plutón
Imágenes de la sonda ‘New Horizons’ sugieren que el planeta alberga tanta agua salada como la Tierra. Una simulación de la formación del Sputnik Planum apoya la idea…
Hubble Observes Magellanic-Type Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a spectacularly detailed image of an isolated dwarf irregular galaxy called NGC 1156. This Hubble image shows NGC 1156, a dwarf…
Webb Finds Protocluster of Galaxies in Early Universe
Astronomers from the University of Cambridge and elsewhere have analyzed the spectroscopic and photometric data from three instruments (NIRSpec, NIRISS and NIRCam) on board the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
Astronomers Solve Mystery of Missing Gaseous Carbon Monoxide in Protoplanetary Disks
Carbon monoxide is ultra-bright and extremely common in protoplanetary disks, making it a prime target for astronomers. But a huge chunk of carbon monoxide is missing in all…
Water-World Super-Earth Found in Nearby Binary System
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the SPIRou spectropolarimeter on the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii telescope have discovered a temperate super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf in the binary system TOI-1452. An artistic…
NASA explores a winter wonderland on Mars
The coldest time of year on the Red Planet is marked by cube-shaped snow, frozen landscapes, and frost. When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into…
Planet spiralling into star may offer glimpse into Earth’s end
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is spiraling towards a catastrophic collision with its aging sun for the first time, maybe providing a look into how Earth might…
An Extreme Black Hole Collision Just Proved Einstein Was Right
More than a century after Albert Einstein proposed the presence of gravitational waves—oscillations of the space-time fabric—in his Theory of Relativity, we now have indisputable proof. The orbits…