The vast expanse of the night sky, a canvas studded with countless stars, is about to reveal a rare and spectacular phenomenon. Brace yourself for a stellar light show as T Coronae Borealis, a seemingly inconspicuous star nestled in the Corona Borealis constellation, is on the verge of a dramatic nova explosion. T Coronae Borealis … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! by Tomasz Nowakowski, Phys.org Discovery transit photometry of SPECULOOS-3 b. Credit: Gillon et al., 2024. × close to Discovery transit photometry of SPECULOOS-3 b. Credit: Gillon et al., 2024. An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new … Read more
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time ever mapped the plasma burps of a feeding black hole-powered quasar relatively close to Earth. Although supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times greater than the Sun are thought to live at the heart of all galaxies, not all of these … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found evidence that two giant asteroids are colliding in a nearby galaxy. The colossal collision threw out 100,000 times more dust than the impact killed the dinosaurs. The violent impact recently occurred in Beta Pictoris, a galaxy 63 light-years away in the constellation Pictoris. Beta Pictoris is a … Read more
Nearly twenty years ago, astronomers observed a huge cloud of fine dust particles around a young star just 63 light-years away from Earth. From recent observations of the Webb Space TelescopeHowever, the dust cloud had mysteriously disappeared. Now a new paper suggests that the dust cloud may have been caused by a violent event that … Read more
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet that is receiving so much radiation that its atmosphere has long since eroded away, leaving it barren. Life as we know it cannot exist on this sizzling world, but astronomers are interested in it for another reason: for the first time, they may be able to see the geology … Read more