Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Over the course of billions of years, galaxies grow and evolve by forging new stars and merging with other galaxies through aptly

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On a cold winter day, the warmth of the sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more and more greenhouse gases, the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Roughly 500 million light-years away, near the constellation Delphinus, two galaxies are colliding. Known as merging galaxy IIZw096, this luminous phenomenon is

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of researchers has uncovered what might be a critical step in the chemical evolution of molecules in cosmic “stellar

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A newly discovered exoplanet could be worth searching for signs of life. Analyses by a team led by astronomer Diana Kossakowski of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf – the surviving core

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – After crunching a mountain of astronomy data, Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona campus, submitted her preliminary analysis.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On Oct. 5, 2020, the rapidly rotating corpse of a long-dead star about 30,000 light years from Earth changed speeds. In a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Meteorites have told Imperial researchers the likely far-flung origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a tail indicates

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A unique team reveals the eventful migration history of planets bordering the Hot Neptune Desert, these extrasolar planets that orbit very close

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of astronomers using two Maunakea Observatories in Hawai?i – W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope – have photographed a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Colossal astronomical data tapestry displays the majesty of our Milky Way in unprecedented detail – a new study. Astronomers have released a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – People around the world are seeing fewer and fewer stars in the night sky. The change in star visibility can be explained

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Probing galaxies at much greater distances from Earth may now be within reach, according to a study. How do stars form in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – UMD-led team developed a miniaturized analyzer that may revolutionize how astrobiology discoveries are made on faraway moons and planets. As space missions

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Powered by supermassive black holes swallowing matter in the centers of galaxies, active galactic nuclei are the most powerful compact steady sources

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of researchers including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has studied the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of physicists devises a model that maps a star’s surprising orbit about a supermassive black hole – revealing new information

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New observations and analysis by Flatiron Institute researchers and their colleagues reveal two Goliath black holes just 750 light-years apart and closing,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most