Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new class of pulsators that vary in brightness every five minutes, has been discovered by a team of astronomers led by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers led by Cornell’s Lisa Kaltenegger has characterized the first potentially habitable world – more massive than our own

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  Hot exoplanet WASP-121b is sending heavy metals such as iron and magnesium into space. The distant planet’s atmosphere is so hot that

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Icy planets once thought too cold to support life might have livable land areas above freezing, challenging the typical assumption of what

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A very specific type of infrared light signature on Neptune’s moon Triton has been pinpointed by an international team of scientists using

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A research team led by UNSW Canberra scientist Ivo Seitenzahl reveals new clues on the evolution of supernovae—a hotly contested topic amongst

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The polar regions of the moon may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought, according to new research by UCLA space

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Supermassive black holes shape their host galaxies with powerful winds that sweep away interstellar matter, a new study based on data from

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system. The coldest temperatures in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) used the Gaia space telescope, to obtain exact measurements of position, brightness and

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, astronomers calculated the strength of powerful magnetic fields, one of the important characteristics of gas-giant planets orbiting close to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A map of an extensive empty region they called the Local Void that borders the Milky Way galaxy has been created by an

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using observations from the international Cassini spacecraft, scientists have explored the ring-like mounds that wrap around some of the pools found at

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers created a map of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, by combining ESA’s Gaia

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the world watched as Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. Since then, space agencies around

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched into space in April 2018; its goal is to search the universe for new

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Two giant clusters of galaxies that are just about to collide have been discovered by for the first time by an international

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have observed a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one that

MessageToEagle.com – On Sep. 1, 1859, solar astronomer Richard Carrington witnessed sunspots that suddenly and briefly flashed brightly before they disappeared. Just before dawn the next day, auroras erupted

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers modeled the possible behavior of giant exomoons and discovered that they would be expelled. Approximately 50 percent of them would survive

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A distant pair of supermassive black holes (more than 800 million times that of our sun) heading for a collision, have been

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a massive protostar called G353.273+0.641 (hereafter G353). They obtained the first detailed face-on

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  The aftermath of the collision of two neutron stars that produced gravitational waves detected in 2017, was studied by astronomers using radio