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Astronomers Complete First Census of Molecular Clouds in the Nearby Universe

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has completed the first census of molecular clouds in the nearby Universe, revealing that contrary to previous scientific opinion, these stellar nurseries do not all look and act the same.

9 Jun 2021

Research Group Discovers Dying Supermassive Black Hole via a 3,000-Year-Long Light Echo

Supermassive black holes occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses.

9 Jun 2021

A New Method to Spot the Whereabouts of Rare Extragalactic Objects

Astrophysicists from the University of Bath have developed a new method for pinpointing the whereabouts of extremely rare extragalactic objects.

9 Jun 2021

A Stream of Stars in the Milky Way Extends At Least 1,600 Light-Years

It's hard to see more than a handful of stars from Princeton University, because the lights from New York City, Princeton and Philadelphia prevent our sky from ever getting pitch black, but stargazers who get into more rural areas can see hundreds of naked-eye stars -- and a few smudgy objects, too.

8 Jun 2021

Researchers Determine the Mode of Formation and Development of Galactic Bulges

An international team of scientists led from the Centre for Astrobiology, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has used the Gran Telescopio Canarias to study a representative sample of galaxies, both disc and spheroidal, in a deep sky zone in the constellation of the Great Bear to characterize the properties of the stellar populations of galactic bulges.

8 Jun 2021

Auroras are Produced by Powerful Electromagnetic Waves During Geomagnetic Storms

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, that fill the sky in high-latitude regions have fascinated people for thousands of years. But how they're created, while theorized, had not been conclusively proven.

8 Jun 2021

Astronomers Use GMRT to Measure Atomic Hydrogen Gas Content of Galaxies 9 Billion Years Ago

A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in Pune, and the Raman Research Institute, in Bangalore, has used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to measure the atomic hydrogen gas content of galaxies 9 billion years ago, in the young universe.

8 Jun 2021