18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
...Forbes at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics and lead author of the study published this...,” adds Douglas N. C. Lin, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz and one of three team members involved ...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
...”. The ‘tour’ comprises seven chapters covering astronomy and astrophysics from the “early cosmic maps”, via black holes and... led eventually to MIT, Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in astrophysics. Recognising that there are many books that tell the history ...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
...seen orbiting a 70-solar-mass black hole, every 79 days. The discovery of LB-1 fits nicely with another breakthrough in astrophysics. Recently, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo gravitational wave detectors have...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... ever found orbiting a single star - and determining their masses and densities. In 2016, following a review of operating astrophysics missions,NASA made a decision to close out the Spitzer mission in 2018 in anticipation of the launch of the James...
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
...doctoral researcher and lead author of the findings reported in the Astrophysical Journal on April 7, 2020. The paper is titled "TXS... where it is born." Jets are the most powerful astrophysical phenomena in the universe. They can emit more energy into...
22 June 2021
The NASA Kepler Mission
... change that because the two missions have made “fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science”. The Kepler spacecraft was, in effect, a planet hunter. From its launch in 2009, it continuously...
