NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to study the early universe in infrared light, was the…
Modelling Extreme Magnetic Fields and Temperature Variation on Distant Stars
New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for the past 30 years – what causes the changing brightness of distant stars called magnetars. Magnetars…
A RUDN University Physicist Simplified the Einstein-Lovelock Theory for Black Holes
Allowing for quantum corrections, the Einstein-Lovelock theory describes black holes with an equation that contains an infinite number of terms. However, according to a Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) physicist,…
Gemini South’s High-Def Version of ‘A Star Is Born’
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is still more than a year from launching, but the Gemini South telescope in Chile has provided astronomers a glimpse of what the orbiting observatory should deliver.…
Meteorite Strikes May Create Unexpected Form of Silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found at the landing site? What can the short-lived chemical phases created by…
Hubble Maps Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy
In a landmark study, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor. Scientists were surprised…
