Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New observations and simulations show that jets of high-energy particles emitted from the central massive black hole in the brightest galaxy in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have discovered 8-millisecond pulsars located within the dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters”, using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope. Millisecond

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  Our two current best ways of estimating the Universe’s rate of expansion—measuring the brightness and speed of pulsating and exploding stars, and looking

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Venus is an enigma. It’s the planet next door and yet reveals little about itself. An opaque blanket of clouds smothers a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In their search for dark matter in our universe, scientists believe they have found a unique and powerful detector: exoplanets. According to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record—and the closest one to Earth found to date. Found in the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have discovered a pulsar—a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos—using a low-frequency radio telescope in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun’s nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The research published in The

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – As the solar system was developing, the giant planets (Jupiter and Saturn) formed very early, and as they grew, they migrated both

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of astronomers has spotted a  strange, giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A solar probe surprised U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists by seeing through the planet’s clouds. Venus, sometimes called Earth’s “evil twin” since

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable ‘biosignature,’ but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Based on data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter that arrived late Friday night, NASA has chosen to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers used data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station and discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The International LOFAR Telescope – a network of radio telescopes across Europe – has taken its first ‘pictures’, revealing a black hole

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like a single object in ground-based

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The behavior of clouds and precipitation on planets beyond Earth is poorly understood. However, understanding clouds and precipitation is important for predicting

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astrophysicists at the Universities of Göttingen and Auckland simulate microscopic clusters from the Big Bang The very first moments of the Universe

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers expect that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will find thousands of planets using two different techniques as it surveys a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –Enceladus, a tiny frozen ball about 500 kilometers in diameter (about 1/7th the diameter of Earth’s moon), is the sixth largest moon of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Within the solar system, X‐ray emissions have been detected from every planet except the Ice Giants: Uranus and Neptune. Now, astronomers have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Monash University have uncovered a black hole approximately 55,000 times the mass of the sun,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG, astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have