Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Light on, light off—this is how one could describe the behavior of the nova, which goes by the name RS Ophiuchi (RS

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers has used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles per hour

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have detected 90 gravitational waves signals. Gravitational waves are perturbations in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A powerful radio-wave laser, called a “megamaser”, has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find is the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Even in our cosmic backyard, the solar system, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  Mercury, our solar system’s smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth, according to a new study. The research by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at a colossal distance of 17,000 light-years from Earth, was discovered by NASA’s Kepler

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz establishes a set of circumstances in which a persuasive case could be made

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The inner nebula of the much-studied supernova Cassiopeia A is not moving smoothly outward. This has been discovered by astronomers from the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new set of waves in the sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory. Researchers from NYU Abu

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have shown that a part of the Milky Way known as the ‘thick disc’ began

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from “tiger stripe” fissures near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus—sometimes as

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomy’s newest mystery objects?—odd radio circles, or ORCs?—have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – When the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft discovered abundant molecular oxygen bursting from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) in 2015, it puzzled scientists. They

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are