Astronomy

The beautiful birth of a star has produced a delightfully ethereal structure in interstellar space. It’s called the Chamaeleon infrared nebula, located about 520 light years away, and in a new image from the NSF NOIRLab International Gemini Observatory in Chile, it appears in the sky as a pale, wispy …

Paul Delaney, longtime York University professor of astronomy, is retiring from full-time teaching but says he has no plans to retire from astronomy. Delaney, a frequent contributor to CTV News, has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students at the university since 1986. He was also director of the university’s Allan …

Planet b Centauri b shouldn’t even exist – but the image above is confirmation that it does exist. The image, taken by the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile, shows the binary star system b Centauri on the left, its two stars not quite resolved. At …

December 6, 2021 Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of profiles of notable fall 2021 graduates. McCall Langford was introduced to the design principles of biomimicry at a young age. She learned to appreciate the intricacies of nature’s intricate systems, processes and forms through the work of …

Astronomer discovers brand new constellations over UK Stargazing in winter can seem intimidating to most as the nights are long and cold, and there’s no guarantee that the weather will be on your side. And yet, astronomer Adrian West has said winter is a fan favorite among astronomers precisely because …

Sunday 5 DecemberIt’s the turn of comet C / 2021 A1 (Leonard) to shine! Soaring at 2 a.m. local time, your best bet to catch this comet until next week is a few hours before sunrise, as it rises higher in the sky southeast of the constellation Boötes . This …

Just over a year after its first official teaser, the Sony Airpeak drone is finally on sale – and the price is launching it firmly to professional filmmakers with studio budgets. The Airpeak S1 is Sony’s first drone and is available to order for $ 8,999 in the US (around …

Using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers captured this image of the particular galaxy NGC 7727. This image, taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, shows NGC 7727, a special galaxy some 69 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Image Credit: ESO / VST-ATLAS Team / University of Durham / …

news, latest news, A TAMWORTH astrophotography exhibit that captured the beauty of the night sky has garnered statewide attention. The Sky Canvas exhibit – a joint initiative between the Tamworth Astronomy and Science Center and the Tamworth Regional Museum – was highly recommended in the “Engagements Programs” category at the …

Astronomers have identified more than 360 previously unknown exoplanets in a new study. Research data was collected from the retired Kepler Space Telescope. Planets discovered outside our solar system are called exoplanets. Read also | Study finds satellite galaxies may have disappeared from the Milky Way Scientists have developed an …

The bright starjet is emitted by Parengo 2042, a protostar that resides in the reflection nebula NGC 1977. Hubble captured a jet of light (orange object at the bottom center of the image) of the protostar Parengo 2042 in this image from NGC 1977. Image credit: NASA / ESA / …

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers studied unusual X-ray activity in three white dwarfs: KPD 0005 + 5106, PG 1159- 035 and WD 0121-756. This artist’s illustration represents what Chu et al. think happens in the binary system KPD 0005 + 5106. The data suggests that …

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Through Brent Furdyk. 3 hours ago Jennifer Lawrence will soon be seen in “Don’t Look Up,” Netflix’s upcoming dark comedy in which she and Leonardo DiCaprio play astronomers who try to warn the President (Meryl Streep) that a massive comet is on its way. collision with Earth and destroy the …

When Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell “stumbled upon something new” during her doctoral studies at Cambridge University, she was on the verge of making what the Royal Society called “one of the greatest discoveries. 20th century astronomers ”. The strange “noise” she noticed in data from the radio telescope she helped …

A group of astronomers, including an amateur astronomer, have discovered a new galaxy in deep space. Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía and amateur astronomer Giuseppe Donatiello, who heads the National Deep Sky Research Section of the Italian Union of Amateur Astronomers, have spotted …

In this series, we explore the weird and wonderful world of astronomical jargon! There is a lot to do with today’s topic: electromagnetism! We have known about the characteristics of electromagnetic force for a long time. We knew the Sun generated light (and we wondered if the Moon did too). …

Artist’s representation of James Webb in space with his mirror unfolded. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez On December 18, NASA is preparing to launch its next flagship mission in space. The spacecraft, called the James Webb Space Telescope, comes with many risks: its approximately 270-square-foot mirror, …

When the Hubble Space Telescope was built in the 1970s and 1980s, the mirror was assembled and ground well below Arizona Stadium in Tucson. We don’t know how far below, but you have to imagine that in order to build very large, precision-built mirrors you would have to eliminate the …

A renewed interest in space and rockets, spurred in part by private space flights that have been in the news in recent months, means the Winnipeg chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) is continuing his campaign to get children interested in astronomy. The RASC is embarking on …

Applications for the University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Research Experience for Undergraduates are now being accepted. The program is a 10-week summer research internship program for undergraduate students studying physics and astronomy. As part of the program, students will benefit from valuable experience, including the opportunity to work …

DDO 68 g-band LBT image. Credit: Pascale et al., 2021. By performing hydrodynamic simulations, astronomers studied an extremely metal-poor galaxy known as DDO 68. The results of the study, presented in an article published October 25 on the arXiv preprint server, allowed to better understand the origin and nature of …

75 years ago, in October, there was a major German theft V-2. missilesCaptured from the Nazis after the end of World War II, American scientists placed a camera on it and launched it from the White Sands Missile Range military base in New Mexico in an attempt to capture the …

The Peterborough Astronomical Association (PAA) meets via Zoom on Friday, starting at 6 p.m., and community members are invited to tune in. The format includes beginner astronomy lessons, a main presentation, and a question and answer period. This month’s beginner astronomy course is about choosing a telescope. This overview will …

Publication of SATCON2 Working Group Reports – Impact of Satellite Constellations on Optical Astronomy and Mitigation Recommendations Status report from: American Astronomical Society Posted: Friday October 29 2021 The SATCON2 workshop entered a decisive moment in the transformation of space. In 2018, a few thousand operational satellites were in orbit …

The newly discovered protocluster, named PHz G237.01 + 42.50 (G237 for short), contains more than 60 members, including galaxies forming blue stars and active galactic nuclei. G237 is so far away that its light has traveled for over 10.6 billion years. Several instruments have joined forces to produce this image …

It is estimated that 300 billion stars make up the Milky Way and each may have one or more exoplanets orbiting. For thousands of years, the night sky was just a splash of random dots. Over time, constellations have formed by connecting the brightest points of light in a certain …

Astronomers from the Dutch School of Astronomical Research have discovered that a globular cluster NGC 2005, a spherical collection of stars closely linked by gravity in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way, is in fact a relic of the fusion of a small galaxy …

Pan-STARS1 and Pan-STARS2 telescopes on Haleakalā. (Photo credit: Jason Chu) The University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy (If a) received a $ 15 million grant from NASA to continue its cutting-edge efforts to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and potentially dangerous asteroids (PLHIVs). If aPanoramic survey telescope and rapid response system …

The innermost planet, Mercury, offers its best exposure of the year in the pre-dawn sky for the remainder of October and through early November. A graphic by Greg Smye-Rumsby. Mercury is currently visible in the pre-dawn sky as it moves furthest from the Sun on October 25. This apparition (visibility …

The sun rises at 6:08 a.m. The sun sets at 5:44 p.m. Moon phase: 3rd quarter, waning gibbous The moon sets at 8:35 am, Saturday Moon rises at 7:55 p.m., Saturday This weekend, look for the continued possibilities of the Orionid meteor shower. Always reliable in October, the Orionids only …

Wythe Marschall, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, spoke to students and faculty at Ithaca College about the lack of inclusion of scientific knowledge from marginalized communities. The Department of Physics and Astronomy Seminar, “Defining, Globalizing and Decolonizing the History of Science: Reflections …

Japanese astronomers have captured images of a potential impact on Jupiter, just over a month since a similar incident was observed. A team, led by Ko Arimatsu of Kyoto University, posted images of a mysterious bright light appearing on the gas giant for about four seconds on October 15. The …

The researchers observed for the first time the evolution of hot gas coming from an active black hole: they were able to observe these structures, strongly reminiscent of the smoke flows produced by volcanic eruptions with unprecedented precision and on a scale of hundred million time. years. Credit: University of …

Two TK keepers say looking at the stars in the night sky will help Indigenous people understand who they are. “Our teachings, our lives are up there … all of our lodges are up there, all of our clan systems are up there. And when we get home, that’s where …

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2021 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach, which recognizes the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists created through public lectures and public media, teaching, research or science-related activities. Ramirez-Ruiz was recognized …

Astronomers using the new Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) have detected 1,652 independent burst events from source FRB 121102 – which is located some 3 billion light years away in the constellation Auriga – on a period of only 47 days. Li et al. observed 1652 rapid …

On October 10, 2021, Comet Leonard displayed a compact coma and a dusty 4-inch tail pointing north. Now at magnitude 12 and moderately condensed, the comet is bright enough that enthusiasts can search for it before dawn. Michel Mattiazzo Predicting the brightness of a newly discovered comet is no easy …

Astronomers using ASKAP from CSIRO and MeerKAT radio telescopes from the South African Radio Astronomical Observatory have discovered and characterized ASKAP J173608.2-321635, a highly polarized, highly variable, steep spectrum radio source located just 4 degrees from the center of the Milky Way. They have largely ruled out most of the …

This composite image of GW Orionis comes from the very large telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Film APOD / ESO / Exeter / Kraus et al., L. Calçada, ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) The GW Orionis star system, relatively close at a distance of only 1,300 …

As fall approaches and the sky clears up, you may have noticed a bright star in the east and a bright star in the west at sunset. Well, it’s not stars but planets. To the east is the giant planet Jupiter, and a little to the right is the darker …

KINGSTON, RI – October 8, 2021 – Audiences will have a history lesson – as well as an overview of the science of astronomy – as the University of Rhode Island’s Department of Theater opens the season on Thursday, October 14 with “Silent Sky” by Lauren Gunderson. “ Written in …

Even the most supermassive black holes are not very large, making it extremely difficult to measure their size. However, astronomers recently developed a new technique that can estimate the mass of a black hole based on the movement of hot gas around them – even when the black hole itself …

The new Bhimtal Observatory will provide tourists with a holistic astronomy experience with live night sky shows, sightings, astrophotography, audiovisual shows during the day and much more. Bangalore, October 6, 2021: Starscapes, the first and only chain of observatories in India, inaugurated its second public observatory in Uttarakhand. Starscapes Experiences …

Held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province of China in June 2021, the conference served to unite a large community of planetary scientists in China and hopes to become one of the most important global planetary science conferences in the future. Twenty years ago, China did not have its own space mission …

October 4, 2021 – A national team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Houston and Kent State University has been awarded $ 4.4 million to establish the modular unified solver of the equation of state (MUSES), a project that will seek to build a …

Sky map for October 4, 2021 showing the constellation Cassiopeia This week, go in search of the constellation Cassiopeia. For observers of the northern hemisphere, it is going to be high in the sky throughout the coming winter months. Indeed, for much of the northern hemisphere, it is a circumpolar …

Posted: Oct 2, 2021 / 1:12 PM EDT / Update: Oct 2, 2021 / 1:12 PM EDT This Dark Energy Survey (DES) image is made up of some of the discovery exhibits showing Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein collected by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco …

image: An image of GW Orionis, a triple star system with a mysterious hole in its surrounding dust rings. UNLV astronomers hypothesize the presence of a massive planet in space, which would be the first planet ever discovered to orbit three stars. The image on the left, provided by the …

SaturnThe movement of against the background stars stops as its retrograde path ends on October 10 and resumes its movement east. The movement of the planet is barely perceptible to the naked eye. Saturn shines at magnitude 0.4 in early October and decreases to magnitude 0.1 in the second half …

UW-Stevens Point Planetarium Shows, Wisconsin Science Festival Presentations Discover new worlds with astronomy this October at the Allen F. Blocher Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the Arthur J. Pejsa Observatory. Two presentations will be offered October 23-24 at statewide events for the Wisconsin Science Festival: · “The …

It’s not often that a space mission gets its own reality TV-style documentary on Netflix, but that’s exactly what a mission called Inspiration4 got this month. We’ve already had a bit of controversy this year as two well-known billionaires (Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos) took short rocket trips to the …

“Dude, do you wanna see a supah nova?” “ Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips delivered to your inbox every Sunday morning – perfect with a coffee! Photo provided On a clear day Matt Schricker heads to his back deck in Weymouth and gets to work. It …

As is the case with living creatures, celestial bodies like stars, planets, and even black holes flourish, live, age, and then die. Some of these astronomical objects, again like living creatures, seem to be disappearing before their time is right. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a …

Bangalore, September 28 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is studying the possibility of developing a next-generation astronomical satellite, an official said on Tuesday. ISRO’s first mission dedicated to astronomy, AstroSat, launched on September 28, 2015, with a nominal lifespan of five years, completed six years of operation on Tuesday. …

To be clear, Proxima Centauri is not like the Sun. It’s a dwarf M, a little orb that glows red. And these little stars are famous for their oversized flares. But some solar stars can also send super flares. This achievement came from telescopes in space designed to search for …

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUN Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of “Ask an astronaut“ and “Space radio, “and author of”How to die in space. “ The universe is good enough to break things together. All kinds of things collide – stars, black holes, and ultra-dense …

Every decade, the astronomical community of the United States comes together to discuss the future of their field of science. With limited resources, both in terms of research funding and time, astronomers decide what questions they are most interested in and recommend telescopes that can help them answer those questions. …

A new telescope system has successfully captured the highest resolution image of the Moon ever taken from Earth using radar technology. The feat took years of work and the result is spectacularly detailed. The focal point is Tycho Crater, one of the most important impressions on the Moon. And even …

Last week Sidney de Santa Maria asked for the difference between astronomical seasons and meteorological seasons. The astronomical seasons are directly related to the tilt of the Earth’s 23½ degree axis as it makes its 365.25 day journey around the sun. At this time of year, most people yearn for …

New Delhi: Astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard and the Smithsonian Institution recently discovered a huge cavity in space, which they say could have been created by ancient supernovae that occurred around 10 million years ago. Astronomers discovered the giant void by studying 3D maps of nearby molecular …

Mummies on Mars That’s why Connor and Passalacqua agree: a body on Mars, if left outside or even buried in loose Martian soil, would likely dry out and mummify. The first stages – algor mortis, livor mortis, and rigor mortis – would still take place, says Connor. But there might …

Astronomers have discovered a huge cavity in the Milky Way galaxy that is believed to have formed after a stellar explosion millions of years ago. The bubble-shaped void is 500 light years wide and is located between star formation regions in the constellations of Perseus and Taurus, reports a new …

A team of astronomers used a rather unconventional way to trace the landing site of a meteorite that entered Earth’s atmosphere. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? SEE THE GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The team of astronomers worked on an article that took all images of a …

Small satellites, easy access to orbit There are two main reasons for this exponential growth. First, it has never been easier to send a satellite into space. For example, on August 29, 2021, a SpaceX rocket transported several satellites – including one built by my students – to the International …

PF trendSep 22, 2021 1:06:11 PM IST The International Astronomical Union has named a crater on the Moon’s South Pole in honor of Matthew Henson, a black man who became one of the first to stand on top of the world. Located at the South Pole of the Moon between …

A full moon. (Lim Yaw Keong / Pixabay) Two warning signs of fall – the harvest moon and the fall equinox – occur within days of each other this week, resulting in sunsets and sunrises. interesting moonlight. The two events can take place up to two weeks apart, but in …

An incredible image of a solar eclipse won this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Selected from over 4,500 entries, the stunning photo was awarded alongside other highlights, including a number of technically masterful photos of distant galaxies. The illustrious photo competition is in its 13th year and is …

Rehearsals and training at the Space Telescope Science Institute are essential to ensure that the assembly process runs smoothly and that any unexpected anomalies can be addressed. NASA / STScI, CC BY After the tests came the rehearsals. The telescope will be controlled remotely by commands sent over a radio …

See bigger. | Ceres in opposition means that he is facing the sun in our sky. This view shows where the planetary bodies will be located in our solar system on November 27, 2021. Image via Dominic Ford / In-the-Sky.org. Ceres was the first asteroid discovered in 1801, then reclassified …

Two views of AG Carinae photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. On the left, the ionized hydrogen and nitrogen in an expanding shell around the star are shown in red tones while tufts of dust and bubbles formed by the solar wind are shown in blue on the right. Image: …

Artist’s impression of the explosion resulting from the collision of two neutron stars. Credit: D. Berry, O. Gottlieb, K. Mooley, G. Hallinan, NRAO / AUI / NSF The National Radio Astronomical Observatory (NRAO) congratulates the four astronomers honored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation for awarding them the 2022 New Horizons …

Figure 1. (a) WISE false-color image of Pa 30 where blue and green represent 11m emission and red 22m. Here, the levels of the 22m component have been adjusted to improve the ring-shaped characteristic. (b) In this false color image, where green represents WISE 11m (as in the left panel) …

This is one of the most exciting things in all of astronomy: the discovery of a new planet. But the push to recognize a particular object – an apparent orb several times the size of Earth that appears to rotate along the outer solar system – as a major planet …

Astronomy on Tap is organizing an event called “Death From the Skies” and “Space Weather” on Thursday September 23 from 7 to 8 pm at the Krannert Performing Arts Center. The event is for all ages, free and open to the public. There will be two speakers: University of Illinois …

Astronomers keen to solve some of the universe’s most fundamental mysteries have their sights set on a new target: quasars, storms of matter that swirl violently around colossal black holes and pierce the cosmos with their dazzling light. These misunderstood galactic nuclei outperform just about every other object in the …

Uzbekistan has embarked on a journey to identify, catalog and present all the art objects reflecting the country’s cultural heritage that are scattered around the world. Once at the center of the Great Silk Road, Uzbekistan has an important cultural heritage. The most recent meeting of the initiative, titled Uzbekistan …

When you look at the sky, what do you ask yourself? Existential questions of life? Or are your thoughts taking a more scientific course, thinking of the Sun, the Moon, the stars and beyond? If it’s the first, God help you, but if it’s the last, Navars Edutech has fascinating …

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDG) are a mystery to astronomers. They are smaller galaxies in terms of star count, but they are still scattered over great distances, making them faint and difficult to spot. It is not known how they form or if there is something special about the dark matter halos …

London: Astronomers have observed the composition of the gases in our galaxy and have shown that, unlike the models established so far, they are not mixed evenly. To understand the history and evolution of the Milky Way, astronomers have studied the composition of gases and metals that make up an …