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Astronomers Find a Previously Unknown Supernova Remnant at Unusual Location

In the first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG, astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have identified a previously unknown supernova remnant, dubbed "Hoinga".

16 Mar 2021

Astronomers Use Ancient Observations to Paint Aged Star System

RV Tauri variable is a rare form of stellar binary in which a pair of stars—one nearing the end of its life—revolves inside an expansive disk of dust.

15 Mar 2021

Scientists Study Dense Molecular Gas in Circumnuclear Disk of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy

Huge reservoirs of molecular gas are found in ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), which are powered by starburst activity and usually with supermassive black holes that tend to accumulate material at their nuclei.

15 Mar 2021

Study Determines the Origin of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays in Milky Way

In astrophysics, a long-standing question seems to be answered at last by a collection of huge, high-tech water tanks installed on a mountainside in Mexico.

12 Mar 2021

FAST Discovers Three New Mysterious Radio Flashes

Fast radio burst (FRB) is a kind of mysterious radio flashes lasting only a few thousandths of a second. Confirmed to be the cosmological origin in 2016, FRB has the potential to provide insights into a wide range of astrophysical problems.

12 Mar 2021

Frontera Supercomputer Enables the Discovery of High-Energy Electron Antineutrino

The idea was so far-fetched it seemed like science fiction: create an observatory out of a one cubic kilometer block of ice in Antarctica to track ghostly particles called neutrinos that pass through the Earth. But speaking to Benedickt Riedel, global computing manager at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, it makes perfect sense.

12 Mar 2021