This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
Amendment 67: D.3 AGIGO: Change to IXPE and NICER General Observer Second Opportunity in ROSES-25
The IXPE GO Program solicits proposals for investigations in any area of astrophysics (not constrained to IXPE’s prime…
Amendment 68: New Opportunity: D.8 Habitable Worlds Observatory Precursor Science Investigations
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a large-aperture ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared observatory concept recommended by the National Academies of Science,…
New research reveals massive stars both exploded in tandem
‘A rare opportunity’ The discovery may offer insight into binary systems composed of massive stars. “This system provides…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral – NASA Science
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that…
How Queen Guitarist Brian May Finished His Doctorate 33 Years Late, Then NASA Called Him – Ultimate Guitar
How Queen Guitarist Brian May Finished His Doctorate 33 Years Late, Then NASA Called Him Ultimate GuitarBorn in England…
Interfacial thermal resistance persists in matter hotter than the Sun
A 200-year-old prediction about how heat crosses boundaries has now been confirmed in matter hotter than the surface…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies | MIT News
Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe’s ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled…
Astronomers Found the Sun’s Missing Silver Hiding in Plain Sight
Theoretically, the Sun shares its chemical origins with meteorites that are billions of years old. But for decades,…
New Black Hole Theory Solves a 50-Year-Old Problem
Illustration of a black hole that is growing in response to an influx of energy. New research from…