Tag: astronomy news

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Even in our cosmic backyard, the solar system, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  Mercury, our solar system’s smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth, according to a new study. The research by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers discovered a single star across most of the entire observable Universe.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz establishes a set of circumstances in which a persuasive case could be made

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The inner nebula of the much-studied supernova Cassiopeia A is not moving smoothly outward. This has been discovered by astronomers from the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new set of waves in the sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory. Researchers from NYU Abu

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from “tiger stripe” fissures near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus—sometimes as

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The count of confirmed exoplanets has just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomy’s newest mystery objects?—odd radio circles, or ORCs?—have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using the world’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the 21st century, planetary scientists have become increasingly aware that subsurface oceans consisting of liquid water exist within objects throughout the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters have been unraveled by a collaboration of international researchers led by the University

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. reveals a cosmic particle acceleration process in unprecedented detail With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – We do not yet know whether the Sun-like stars closest to us, the Centauri A/B binary, harbor an Earth-like planet. However, thanks

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has observed the merging of multimillion-degree X-ray spots on the surface

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A black hole gets a large corona before it emits jets. This is revealed, among other things, by the heartbeat graph that

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – SISSA scientists provide the first simulation of neutron star collisions in extensions of general relativity relevant for cosmology, offering a new approach

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just 1,000 light-years

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, Northwestern University-led astronomers may have detected an afterglow from a kilonova. A kilonova occurs when two neutron stars—some