Tag: astronomy news

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 – 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 – 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 – An international team of researchers explain the fate of JO201, as part of a study of 114 jellyfish galaxies. To explore the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A massive ‘hit-and-run’ collision profoundly impacted the evolutionary history of Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. Artist’s concept of a massive

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope presents the Whirlpool galaxy and how its appearance changes in different wavelengths of light—from visible light to the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Western astrophysicists have found evidence of the direct formation of black holes that do not need to emerge from a star remnant.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new tool – a machine learning algorithm – will help astronomers in their search for extraterrestrial life, by identifying stars hosting

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New study from planetary scientists at the University of Washington, suggests that the subsurface ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus probably has higher concentrations of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local Group — a collection of over 50 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood that

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) report the earliest example of merging galaxies yet discovered. Takuya Hashimoto at Waseda University, Japan,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have long observed clouds in Mars’ middle atmosphere, which begins about 18 miles (30 kilometers) above the surface, but have not

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – As NASA’s Cassini dove close to Saturn in its final year, the spacecraft provided intricate detail on the workings of Saturn’s complex

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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Astronomers using the combined power of two Hawaii telescopes have taken groundbreaking, sharp new images of a distant planetary system that likely resembles

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Supergiant stars with surface temperature ranging from 10,000 to 40,000 kelvin (17,540° to 71,540° F), making them appear blue-white. These supergiants are massive,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new model that looks at how the habitable zone — the region around a star where the temperature allows liquid water to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Dark matter may scatter against each other only when they hit the right energy, say researchers in Japan, Germany, and Austria in a