By studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion seen in April 2020, a Chalmers-led…
Stars and Skulls: New ESO Image Reveals Eerie Nebula
This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, nestled in the belly of The Whale, bears an uneasy resemblance to a skull floating through space. Captured in astounding detail by ESO’s Very…
Chronicling Legacy of Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to study the early universe in infrared light, was the first telescope to see light from a planet outside our solar system. Launched in 2003, Spitzer contained…
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.…
