Tag: astronomy news

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy brings radio astronomy back to its

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A quadruple star system discovered in 2017 and recently observed at the University of Canterbury Mt. John Observatory could represent a new channel

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In our sun’s neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers led by Dr. Zhou Xinping from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have found solid evidence

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Three years ago, the first-ever image of a black hole stunned the world. A black pit of nothingness enclosed by a fiery

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – As the scientific community searches for worlds orbiting nearby stars that could potentially harbor life, new Southwest Research Institute-led research suggests that

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will swing by Earth to deliver a sample from asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. But it won’t clock

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a witness at the scene of a star’s explosive death: a companion star previously hidden in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have been studying the sediments within Mars’ Gale crater for many years using orbital data sets, but thanks to the Curiosity

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion that was discovered eight years ago, but is

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO’s Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Flows in planets like Earth are characterized by many features, such as rotation and the difference in temperature between the hot core

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Europa is a prime candidate for life in our solar system, and its deep saltwater ocean has captivated scientists for decades. But

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), have observed a new type

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth’s sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A powerful radio-wave laser, called a “megamaser”, has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find is the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark have identified a distant object with properties

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers at the University of Sydney have found a slimmer type of red giant star for the first time. These stars have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles per hour

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have detected 90 gravitational waves signals. Gravitational waves are perturbations in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the