Tag: Astronomy
Life’s first handshake: Chiral molecule detected in interstellar space
Scientists applaud the first detection of a "handed" molecule, (propylene oxide) in interstellar space. It was detected, primarily with the NSF's Green Bank Telescope,...
Kepler-1647b: New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns
Artist's impression of the simultaneous stellar eclipse and planetary transit events on Kepler-1647. Credits: Lynette Cook
If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you’ll...
Milky Way now hidden from one-third of humanity
Light pollution now blots out the Milky Way for eight in 10 Americans. Bright areas in this map show where the sky glow from...
Scientists observe supermassive black hole feeding on cold gas
Deep in the heart of the Abell 2597 Brightest Cluster Galaxy, astronomers see a small cluster of giant gas clouds raining in on the...
Universe’s first life might have been born on carbon planets
In this artist's conception, a carbon planet orbits a sunlike star in the early universe. Young planetary systems lacking heavy chemical elements but relatively...
‘Wasteful’ galaxies launch heavy elements into surrounding halos and deep space
Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are shown in the center, surrounded by the circumgalactic medium, which appears as black to our eyes. However,...
New radio map of Jupiter reveals what’s beneath colorful clouds
The VLA radio map of the region around the Great Red Spot in Jupiter's atmosphere shows complex upwellings and downwellings of ammonia gas (upper...
Was Planet 9 once an exoplanet; stolen by our sun
Planet 9 was most likely stolen by our sun 4.5 billion years ago. Credit: Image courtesy of Lund University
Through a computer-simulated study, astronomers at...
Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life
Rosetta's comet in August 2015, when it was closest to the sun and when most of the glycine was detected.
Credit: ESA
Ingredients crucial for the...
A planet 1,200 light-years away is a good prospect for a...
An artist's conception of Kepler-62f, a planet in the 'habitable zone' of a star located about 1,200 light-years from Earth.Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
A distant...
Astronomers find giant planet around very young star
This false-color image from a sub-millimeter interferometric telescope shows the circumstellar disk of gas and dust that surrounds star CI Tau. Credit: Stephane Guilloteau/University...
