Tag: Astronomy
The sun’s clock: New calculations support and expand planetary hypothesis
Not only the 11-year cycle, but also all other periodic solar activity fluctuations can be clocked by planetary attractive forces. With new model calculations,...
Astronomers spot a ‘blinking giant’ near the center of the galaxy
Astronomers have spotted a giant 'blinking' star towards the center of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.
An international team of astronomers...
Asteroid 16 Psyche might not be what scientists expected
New research finds that the target asteroid of NASA's Psyche mission may not be as metallic or dense as previously predicted, hinting that it...
Astronomer reveals never-before-seen detail of the center of our galaxy
New research reveals, with unprecedented clarity, details of violent phenomena in the center of our galaxy. Scientists reveal the clearest picture yet of a...
Milky Way not unusual, astronomers find
Astronomers discover that galaxy UGC 10738 is similar to the Milky Way galaxy revealing that spiral galaxies are typical. This new discovery shows how...
Mapping the local cosmic web: Dark matter map reveals hidden bridges...
Researchers developed a new dark matter map in the local universe using a large set of galaxy simulations including galaxies, gasses, other visible matter, as well as...
STARFORGE, Stunning simulation of stars being born is the most realistic...
STARFORGE (Star Formation in Gaseous Environments) developed the first realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulation model of star formation, evolution, and dynamics that account for stellar...
The light-bending dance of binary black holes
A binary black holes is a pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun's mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in...
Telescopes unite in unprecedented observations of famous black hole
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable...
What do Netflix, Google and planetary systems have in common?
Dan Tamayo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Planetary Science at U of T Scarborough.Credit: Photo by Ken Jones
Same class of algorithms...
Atmospheric chemistry on paper
Normally computers speed up calculations. But with his new pen-and-paper formula Kevin Heng of the University of Bern, Switzerland, gets his results thousands of...
