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Youngest Astronomers Discover Four New Exoplanets

They may be the youngest astronomers to make a discovery yet. This week, 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright have co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in The Astronomical Journal describing the discovery of four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth.

29 Jan 2021

SpaceX Launches TU Dresden Nanosatellite into Space

On January 22, fingers are crossed for a successful launch of the American SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from the launch site in Cape Canaveral (Florida).

22 Jan 2021

Astronomers Discover First Jupiter-Like Planet Without Clouds

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

22 Jan 2021

Scientists Combine NASA Data and Image Processing to Gain Insight into Solar Structures

Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun's flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research published today in The Astrophysical Journal. This first look at relatively small features, dubbed "plumelets," could help scientists understand how and why disturbances form in the solar wind.

21 Jan 2021

Hubble Space Telescope Images Reveal New Information About Planetary Nebulae

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features.

20 Jan 2021

New Quasar Discovery Beats the Previously Set Distance Record

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar yet found -- a cosmic monster more than 13 billion light-years from Earth powered by a supermassive black hole more than 1.6 billion times more massive than the Sun and more than 1,000 times brighter than our entire Milky Way Galaxy.

13 Jan 2021

Scientists Discover an 'Old Faithful' Cosmic Eruption

You've heard of Old Faithful, the Yellowstone National Park geyser that erupts every hour or two, a geological phenomenon on a nearly predictable schedule.

13 Jan 2021

Ultra-Deep Field Observations by Roman Space Telescope Could Improve the Understanding of Universe

One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single patch of seemingly empty sky for hundreds of hours beginning in September 2003, and astronomers first unveiled this galaxy tapestry in 2004, with more observations in subsequent years.

12 Jan 2021

ALMA Captures a Far-Away Galaxy Ejecting Its Star-Forming Gas

Galaxies begin to "die" when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away galaxy. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have seen a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas.

12 Jan 2021

Astronomers Reach Agreement on the Age of the Universe

New observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation that permeates the universe has confirmed its age of 13.77 billion years… Give or take 40 million years!

6 Jan 2021