Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – These curious chevron shapes in southeast Hellas Planitia are the result of a complex story of dunes, lava, and wind. Long ago,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A black hole at the center of a nearby dwarf galaxy, called NGC 4395, is about 40 times smaller than previously thought, according

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have studied an extrasolar planet, which has a surface temperature of around 2000 K. MASCARA-2B/KELT-20b is an ultra hot Jupiter. It

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New ALMA observations reveal a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped around the supermassive black hole at the center of the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system — the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –“Superflares” – very strong explosions observed on stars with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares – are a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have solved one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  During the phase, in which the black hole is consuming the material of the galaxy, the galaxy has an active galactic nucleus (AGN),

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface? This question has puzzled researchers for long time. Now, University of Michigan

MessageToEagle.com – One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or time or universe. That fantasy may

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A strange cosmic object made headlines after it was discovered in October 2017. The cigar-shaped body named “Oumuamua was the first known

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, identified a galaxy with more dark matter packed into its core than expected. The

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of researchers led by astrophysicist Dr Diederik Kruijssen from Heidelberg University,  has now managed for the first time to reconstruct the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – There’s way more to Saturn than its majestic rings. The planet also boasts a collection of 62 exotic moons. Titan — a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A map of the entire sky in X-rays has been recorded by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). NICER’s primary science goals

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – It happens several times a week. Sometimes it is only short flashes of light that appear on the surface of the moon.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope identified about 1800 new supernovae in the distant Universe, including 58 Type Ia supernovae over 8 billion

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Did ancient supernovae induce proto-humans to walk on two legs? A new study gives a possible explanation why ancestors of homo sapiens

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An exoplanet, smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere, has been discovered in the Neptunian Desert by an international team of astronomers. The

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers discovered that pairs of stars have been kicked out of their host galaxies. The stellar pairs

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arizona have discovered remnants of ancient ice sheets buried in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune’s largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, An extraordinary union

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A UCR-led international team of astronomers discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life