Tag: astronomy news

 Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in, shows a new study. “Enormous clouds of gas are pulled into galaxies and used in

 Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For millennia, humanity has observed the changing phases of the Moon. The rise and fall of sunlight reflected off the Moon, as

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Gravitational microlensing is currently the only technique that helps study the Galactic distribution of planets as a function of distance from the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The universe is awash with electromagnetic radiation, of which visible light comprises just the tiniest slice. From short-wavelength gamma rays and X-rays

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The researchers have identified a new class of habitable planets, dubbed ‘Hycean’ planets—hot, ocean-covered planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, which are more numerous

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Ten days ago, astronomers discovered an asteroid with the shortest orbital period of any known asteroid in the Solar System. The orbit

 Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new analysis of Saturn’s rippling rings reveals the nature of the gas giant’s core. In the same way that earthquakes cause

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The same phenomenon that causes aurorae—the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of the Earth—causes mesospheric ozone

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers calculate that the Oort Cloud may be home to more visiting objects than objects that belong to our solar system. In

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Every massive galaxy is believed to host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center. Its mass is correlated with the mass

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that a mysterious signal, which had been discovered while analyzing the polarization of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have measured thousands of nearby stars and far away galaxies that have never been identified before at radio wavelengths while studying

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized feature of our Milky Way galaxy: A contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds is sticking

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – At the center of galaxies, like our own Milky Way, lie massive black holes surrounded by spinning gas. Some shine brightly, with

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Supernovas in the Ophiuchus star cluster are the most likely source of short-lived radionuclides in the star-forming clouds, according to a new

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers report. A new study revealed that the flickering in the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have developed a novel technique to investigate the dynamics of the early Solar System by analyzing magnetites in meteorites utilizing the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere and liquid on the surface, among our solar system’s many moons.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A Carnegie-led survey of exoplanet candidates identified by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Satellite Survey (TESS) is laying the groundwork to help astronomers understand

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new technique for processing lunar radar data has allowed scientists to see what lies beneath the surface of the moon in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Stars scattered throughout the cosmos look different, but they may be more alike than once thought, according to Rice University researchers. New

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the early stages of the Universe, quarks and gluons were quickly confined to protons and neutrons which went on to form

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Planets form as the dust grains in a protoplanetary disk grow into pebbles and then finally into planets. Because small dust grains

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The rover Perseverance continues to explore Jezero Crater, and it has begun drilling into the surface. NASA reports it is the first-ever digging

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An extraordinary collection of pulsating giant red stars has been identified by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA).