Tag: Astronomy
World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
Inside view of the LUX detector.Credit: Photo by Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a...
What lies beneath: Venus’ surface revealed through the clouds
Schematic illustration of the proposed behaviour of gravity waves in the vicinity of mountainous terrain on Venus.
Winds pushing their way slowly across the mountainous...
Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest...
Artist's rendering of WISE 0855 as it might appear if viewed up close in infrared light.
Credit: Illustration by Joy Pollard, Gemini Observatory/AURA
Since its detection...
Let there be light: Super bright galaxies of the early Universe
A very distant galaxy cluster in the early Universe.Credit: ESO
Astronomers have shed further light on the evolution of the early Universewith the discovery of...
Seeds of black holes could be revealed by gravitational waves detected...
Gas and stars in a slice of the EAGLE simulations at the present day. The intensity shows the gas density, while the color encodes...
NASA scientists discover unexpected mineral on Mars
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock...
X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of ‘killer’ black...
In this artist's rendering, a thick accretion disk has formed around a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star that wandered...
Astronomers find the first ‘wind nebula’ around a magnetar
This X-ray image shows extended emission around a source known as Swift J1834.9-0846, a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star called a magnetar. The glow arises...
Unexpected Excess of Giant Planets in Star Cluster Messier 67
This artist's impression shows a hot Jupiter planet orbiting close to one of the stars in the rich old star cluster Messier 67, in...
‘Mosh pits’ in star clusters a likely source of LIGO’s first...
Northwestern University astrophysicists have predicted history. In a new study, the scientists show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic merger of...
First detection of methyl alcohol in a planet-forming disc
This artist's impression shows the closest known protoplanetary disc, around the star TW Hydrae in the huge constellation of Hydra (The Female Watersnake). The...
