Astronomers Discover Milky Way Galaxy’s Most-Distant Stars
Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way’s outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy —…
New Study Likely to Shed Light on Universe’s Star Formation History
In a new project by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the scientists aim at peering into the most elusive galaxies in the universe. This is likely to help astronomers…
Exoplanets With Leaking Atmosphere Could Explain Gap in Planetary Evolution
Scientists have discovered four exoplanets that appear to be shrinking in size and losing their atmosphere gradually. The rate at which this change is taking place suggests that these celestial…
How Scentists Plan to Detect Exoplanets Orbiting Violent Dead Stars
Researchers have suggested a new way to detect planets that orbit around dead stars known as Cataclysmic Variables (CVs), which are essentially binary star systems that have two stars in…
Largest Survey Suggests Planets Are Extremely Rare to Find Near Pulsars
A survey of rapidly rotating neutron stars, known as pulsars, has revealed that the first exoplanet discovery was an extremely rare find. The first time that exoplanets were discovered was…
Star Formation Could Be Much Faster Than Previously Thought: Study
Astronomers have long thought that it takes millions of years for a star like our Sun to form completely. But recent observations via the world’s largest radio telescope FAST are…
How to spot a Starlink satellite in the night sky
There are hundreds of SpaceX satellites in the sky. A successful sighting just requires a bit of luck, writes Abigail Beall Space 16 September 2020 By Abigail Beall Denise Taylor/Getty…
The fastest star in our galaxy moves at 8 per cent the speed of light
By Leah Crane The region around Sagittarius A* NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai et al. Astronomers have spotted the fastest star ever, moving at 8 per cent the speed of light. The…
The universe may be full of enormous clusters of tiny black holes
By Leah Crane Could tiny black holes explain dark matter?NASA/JPL-Caltech If black holes formed in the first seconds after the big bang, they may still be around in colossal clusters…
Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun
It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the universe’s first stars as they died and is halfway through its 9-billion-year lifespan Space…