Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Six billion years ago, two galaxies were colliding, their combined forces hurling a stream of gas hundreds of thousands of light years
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered that it
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant planets, could be more common
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – By precisely tracing a small, almost imperceptible, wobble in a nearby star’s motion through space, astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like planet orbiting
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Could one of the biggest puzzles in astrophysics be solved by reworking Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity? A new study co-authored by
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission recently learned that surface regeneration happens a lot quicker on asteroids than on Earth. By analyzing rock
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Human and machine intelligence worked together to find 40,000 ring galaxies, scientists at the National Astronomy Meeting will announce this week. Dr. Mike
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or “spaghettified,” after approaching too close to
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu’s surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided scientists with a direct
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group—that is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond to a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Stars with the mass of the sun or larger are typically accompanied by one or more orbiting companion stars. The system forms
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On the 50th anniversary of the discovery of a close connection between star formation in galaxies and their infrared and radio radiation,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – As telescopes have become more advanced and powerful, astronomers have been able to detect more and more distant galaxies. These are some
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new fossil galaxy, which was uncovered via a systematic visual search of legacy survey images using the Mayall 4-meter telescope, led
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy’s core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses. The Event
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international group of astronomers, led by Juan Diego Soler of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), have found the imprint
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A supernova is the catastrophic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae, in particular, signal the complete destruction of a white dwarf star,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada’s High Arctic is the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Southwest Research Institute scientists combined data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modeling to reveal the likely
