Scientists using a powerful telescope in Western Australia have discovered a “mysterious” object in our galaxy, which lets off gigantic blasts of energy three times an hour. The researchers reckon it could be “an ultra-long-period magnetar,” which has never been observed before. The object was discovered by Tyrone O’Doherty, a …
Read More »Astronomers witness supergiant star’s death in real-time (VIDEO)
For the first time ever, scientists were able to track a red supergiant in real-time during its final 130 days, watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and death throes before a violent explosion. It was previously believed that red supergiant stars remained calm and didn’t show any symptoms of approaching …
Read More »Mysterious ‘alien megastructure’ star is not alone as astronomers discover dwarf star neighbor
The otherwise normal star KIC 8462852, better known as Boyajian’s Star, is slightly larger and hotter than the Sun and sits around 1,480 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The new breakthrough suggests that the star has a binary companion that could be contributing to its unexplained flickering. The …
Read More »Astronomers capture exact moment supermassive black hole DEVOURED entire star
The so-called ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE) is the closest such death of a star humanity has ever witnessed. Astronomers were alerted by the intense flash of light, visible hundreds of millions of light years away, just before parts of the star disappeared into the black hole’s event horizon after being …
Read More »The merger of two white dwarfs: Russian astronomers have discovered rare cosmic object
While Elon Musk is busy with vessels of the U.S. air force due to the fact that the latter chose other suppliers of rocket engines RD-180, Russian scientists make significant discoveries in the field of space. Recently astronomers from the Moscow state University found extremely interesting object for research is …
Read More »Astronomers found water on the asteroid Itokawa
This confirms confirms the hypothesis that water once fell on the Earth due to asteroid collision. Researchers from the University of Arizona found traces of water in the soil samples of the asteroid Itokawa brought back by the Japanese probe Hayabusa in 2010. Team Arizona has studied five of the …
Read More »Astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet
The exoplanet orbits a star of the main sequence KELT-9. Exoplanet atmosphere, which is heated to such high temperatures that it contains a pair of titanium and iron, found in the constellation Cygnus. On the planet literally float the “iron” of the cloud. Planetary scientists have published their observations in …
Read More »Astronomers have found a “galactic desert”
The space contained an unusually few large, active galaxies. Observations of the oldest galaxies of the Universe have helped astrophysicists to open another “space desert” – a sphere with a diameter of approximately 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces, almost completely devoid of stars. Photos of this …
Read More »Astronomers “weigh” a planet similar to our own
The discovery of a probable Earth-like planets around Proxima Centauri was the beginning of the study the nearest star to Earth besides the Sun. Astronomers had a rare opportunity to determine its mass and to study more Earth-like planet. In the document accepted for monthly notices of the Royal astronomical …
Read More »Astronomers have discovered lake on Mars
Astronomers believe that beneath the dusty regolith of Mars is not less than five million cubic kilometers of ice.So you can be sure that on the red planet there is no shortage of water. In the nineteenth century the American astronomer Percival Lowell popularized the idea that there are channels …
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