Category: Astronomy

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

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers are now in a better position to interpret observations of supernova remnants thanks to computer simulations of these cataclysmic events by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has revealed a new view of the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Abell 78 is not only an unusual but also a very beautiful planetary nebula, located around 5,000 light-years away in the constellation

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of astronomers has

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – One of the most profound discoveries in planetary science over the past 25 years is that worlds with oceans beneath layers of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2017, the first interstellar object from beyond our solar system was discovered via the Pan-STARRS astronomical observatory in Hawaii. It was

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers focus on a mysteriously long, thin cloud that again has appeared over the 20-km high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. When spring

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Now, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have identified a supermassive black hole in motion.  Black holes can

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – By using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles coming from a supermassive black hole

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have probably discovered a giant, hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The relatively young

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Supernova explosions must have taken place in the birth environment of our sun, a new study concludes. The unstable atom 92Nb, which

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The universe was created by a giant bang; the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, and then it started to expand. The

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A hot super-Earth in orbit around a nearby red dwarf star Gliese 486, only 26 light-years from the Sun has been discovered

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, released from the Sun at high speed during storms in its outer atmosphere, has been

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Red supergiants are a class of star that end their lives in supernova explosions. Their lifecycles are not fully understood, partly due

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The North Polar Spur (NPS) is one of the largest structures observed in the Milky Way in both the radio and soft

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino — a particularly elusive particle — in the wake of a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – During its several billion miles long journey toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The most densely populated galaxy cluster in formation in the primitive universe has been found by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica