First x-rays captured in space mark breakthrough for astronaut health
Medical care in space has long faced a quiet but serious limitation. For more than 40 years, astronauts…
XMM-Newton gamma-ray detection shows the Milky Way is bigger than previously thought
The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent…
Listening for the echoes of black holes | MIT News
Black holes are often misunderstood to be just that: dark and mysterious voids that are somehow akin to…
NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came…
Gamma Cassiopeiae may be hiding a magnetic white dwarf companion
Visible without a telescope, γ Cassiopeiae has stood out for decades because it behaves unlike an ordinary massive…
NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified…
