Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Measuring distances to remote cosmic objects like galaxies, quasars, and galaxy clusters is crucial yet challenging in astrophysics, especially when studying the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems.
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds—and NASA’s Hubble Space
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the latest issue of the journal Nature, astronomers from Stockholm University reveal the origin of a thermonuclear supernova explosion. Strong emission
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Montpellier have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the alert when
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Another member of the new “Cow” class of supernova explosions has been discovered—the brightest one seen in X-rays to date. The new
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The fastest optical flash of a Type Ia supernova has been discovered by a team of astronomers, and is reported in Astrophysical
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers are now in a better position to interpret observations of supernova remnants thanks to computer simulations of these cataclysmic events by
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Today, the faint star V Sagittae, V Sge, in the constellation Sagitta, is barely visible, even in mid-sized telescopes. However, by century’s end,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A research team led by UNSW Canberra scientist Ivo Seitenzahl reveals new clues on the evolution of supernovae—a hotly contested topic amongst
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched into space in April 2018; its goal is to search the universe for new
MessageToEagle.com – An international team of researchers, have found a star system (nicknamed Apep after the serpentine Egyptian god of chaos ), which is the first known candidate in
MessageToEagle.com – An amateur astronomer in Argentina has helped scientists obtain their first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of a massive star. During tests
MessageToEagle.com – The most distant supernova ever detected has been confirmed by an international team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton, UK. The celestial event is a huge cosmic
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have long wondered whether zombie stars do exist. Normally, when stars explode at the end of their lives, they can shine with the brightness of 100
MessageToEagle.com – A bright unknown object has been discovered lurking near a black hole in galaxy of Cygnus A. Located about 800 million light-years from Earth, Cygnus A (3C
MessageToEagle.com – There is no doubt that a supernova is a real danger to life on Earth. What has so far been unclear, is how close the supernova must
MessageToEagle.com – On November 6, 1572, a supernova was first observed by the German astronomer Wolfgang Schüler of Wittenberg. This spectacular celestial event was observed in the W-shaped
MessageToEagle.com – On August 4, 1181, a supernova was seen in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese astronomers observed this supernova first on August 4 and then on
MessageToEagle.com – Sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visible from Earth. Astronomers have calculated the odds to be nearly
MessageToEagle.com – On July 4, 1054 AD, a supernova that created the Crab Nebula was observed and recorded by Earth-bound chroniclers. Chinese astronomers noticed a bright “guest” star
