International team detected radio bubbles with South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. A gigantic, balloon-like structure has been hiding in plain sight, right in the center of our own galaxy. An international team of astronomers, including Northwestern’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, discovered the structure, which is one of the largest ever observed in the Milky […]
A photograph showing SpaceX’s first batch of Starlink satellites during launch on May 23, 2019. (Image: © SpaceX) SpaceX is planning to launch the second installment of its Starlinkmegaconstellation on Monday (Nov. 11), and astronomers are waiting to see — well, precisely what they will see. When the company launched its […]
The Solheimajokull glacier has shrunk by an average of 40 metres per year in the past decade Icelandic seventh-grader Lilja Einarsdottir is on an unusual field trip with her class: they’re measuring the Solheimajokull glacier to see how much it has shrunk in the past year, witnessing climate change first-hand. […]
An artist’s impression of the rocky exoplanet Kepler-186f, which is one of the most promising candidates for a planet could potentially be habitable, but how similar or different does it have to be compared to Earth to be able to support life? Credit: NASA/Ames/SETI Institute/JPL–Caltech. Three billion years ago, Earth […]
An ancient gas cloud discovered by a team led including recent Carnegie-Princeton fellow Eduardo Bañados and Carnegie’s Michael Rauch and Tom Cooper formed just 850 million years after the Big Bang. Its chemical composition reveals that the first generation of stars formed quickly and rapidly and enriched the universe with […]
Graphic shows the basic design of an X-ray free electron laser or XFEL, in which brilliant X-ray bursts strike crystallized samples, causing diffraction patterns that can be reassembled into detailed images. X-rays damage biomolecules, a problem that has plagued structure determination efforts for decades. But the X-ray bursts produced by […]
The team’s analysis paves the way for better measurements in the future using telescopes from the Cherenkov Telescope Array. Credit: Daniel López/IAC Clemson team collaborates to quantify one of the most fundamental laws of the cosmos. Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a […]
The Active Sensing of Carbon Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) campaign flew over Nome, Alaska, on August 5, 2017, as part of NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). Credit: NASA A NASA-funded study suggests winter carbon emissions in the Arctic may be adding more carbon into the atmosphere […]
Crystal structure of thorium decahydride, ThH10. Credit: Dmitry Semenok et al./Materials Today A group of scientists led by Artem Oganov of Skoltech and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Ivan Troyan of the Institute of Crystallography of RAS has succeeded in synthesizing thorium decahydride (ThH10), a new superconducting […]
This artist’s concept shows the European Space Agency’s ARIEL spacecraft on its way to Lagrange Point 2 (L2) – a gravitationally stable, Sun-centric orbit – where it will be shielded from the Sun and have a clear view of the sky. NASA’s JPL will manage the mission’s CASE instrument. Credit: […]