Where & When To See October’s Hunter’s Full Moon Rise In Australia Tonight
THE RUNDOWN October’s full Moon will rise tonight, Monday, October 26, 2026. It rises in proximity to Saturn,…
MEGATRON simulations connect the first stars with the universe’s smallest galaxies
MEGATRON simulations offer a possible explanation for the similar iron content of many of the smallest galaxies.Radiation delayed…
Can a black hole split into two in accordance with Einstein’s general relativity?
A theoretical study examines which laws prevent black holes from splitting and where altered assumptions might permit fragmentation.Rapid…
The ‘Exotic Physics’ Behind a Mysterious 1,000-Mile Cloud on Mars
Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear…
Apparent magnetic field decay in a solar flare from Zeeman splitting of the Mg I 12.32-µm line
Priest, E. R. & Forbes, T. G. The magnetic nature of solar flares. Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 10, 313…
Scientists find evidence of a solar storm near a supermassive black hole
An X-ray flare near NGC 3783’s supermassive black hole showed a timing pattern familiar from solar eruptions.XRISM and…
A self-shadowing black hole accretion disk at sub-Eddington luminosities
Matsuoka, M. et al. The MAXI mission on the ISS: science and instruments for monitoring all-sky X-ray images.…
Astronomers Matched van Gogh’s Starry Night to a Real Sky—and a Weirdly Specific Date
For a surprisingly long time, scientists have debated whether Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night was his fantasy,…
White Dwarf Spotted Devouring the Planet It Birthed
Is there life after death? For star systems, the answer seems to be yes. Astronomers have identified the…
Dennis Mammana: Watch the Moon Dance Across the Night Sky Toward a Close Encounter with Saturn | Outdoors
The moon shines brightly in our night sky this week. Stargazers have been known to curse those nights…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope prepares to unleash a flood of new cosmic discoveries
Roman is designed to return about 1.4 terabytes of data daily, with observations becoming publicly available after processing.A…
New large-sized telescope array in Spain ushers in a new era in exploring the extreme universe
Four 23-meter telescopes on La Palma mark the completion of construction for CTAO-North’s Large-Sized Telescope sub-array.Their large mirrors…