Space
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The largest star in the Milky Way is slowly dying: astronomers are watching it
Astronomers from the University of Arizona have developed a model of the aging of the star VY Big Dog —…
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Astronomers have found unusual voids in space: these are traces of dying stars
During the analysis of the rarefied gas that drifts between the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have found…
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Astrophysicists have found a powerful and young pulsar in a distant galaxy
Using data obtained by the VLA radio telescope, the researchers discovered a young and very powerful pulsar at a distance…
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“Heat spot” of anthropogenic origin discovered in the Pacific Ocean
German scientists from the University of Hamburg said that the zone of abnormal heat in the middle of the ocean…
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A huge spot on the Sun has increased dramatically in size
The AR3038 spot — today the largest on the Sun — has grown even stronger in a day and has…
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2.3 million kilometers per hour: scientists have found a very fast space object
The Chandra X-ray Observatory measured a pulsating neutron star that is moving at a speed of about 2.25 million km/h.…
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White dwarf absorbs pieces of planets. Astrophysicists have studied cosmic cannibalism (photo)
Long-term observations revealed the process of absorption of the planetary system by a white dwarf. Spectral data show that the…
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Is it possible to survive the death of the Sun by turning the Earth into a spaceship?
Man has long guessed that nothing lasts forever under the Sun. In the middle of the last century, it turned…
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Power grids on the Moon: how the lunar base will be powered
Sandia National Laboratories is developing electrical microgrids for the distribution of electricity from the nuclear mini-reactors of the lunar base…
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Look at the ‘rings of a snake’ in a new image of a spiral galaxy
The European Space Observatory has published a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1087. The image combines data from…
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Gaia space telescope detects seismic activity in thousands of stars
The European Space Agency announced the publication of the third release of data obtained from the Gaia telescope studying the…
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European Space Agency to launch mission to “unknown” comet
The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the Comet Interceptor mission. The probe, which will be launched in 2029, will…
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Ultra-rare space object found in Milky Way
A new representative of the category of stars has been found in the Milky Way — no more than 18…
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Scientists have studied a dwarf galaxy. It is wrong, but very close to the Ground
The results of the observation campaign, published on the preprint’s website arXiv.org , give important information about the stellar population…
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Astrophysicists have found a giant “particle accelerator” inside a solar flare
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have identified a solar flare region in which charged particles accelerate to…
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NASA to study mysterious Greuthuizen domes on the Moon
NASA is preparing to launch a “priority” mission to explore mysterious domes on the moon. The space Agency announced that…
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A strange repeating signal is coming from a distant galaxy: astronomers don’t know what it is yet
Scientists have recently found the source of mysterious fast radio bursts. The source was first found in 2019 and named…
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Jupiter’s core was partially dissolved in metallic hydrogen
Scientists have built a computer model of the interior of Jupiter, which, finally, quite well matched the observed data. Jupiter’s…
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The James Webb telescope collided with a small meteorite: engineers told about the consequences
The space in which the telescope flies is not a vacuum, so the inevitable happened — a tiny piece of…
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Elon Musk’s Noah’s Ark will deliver a million people to Mars (video)
SpaceX founder says his company will send a million people to Mars by 2050. Last week, May 31, marked the…
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Hubble has made the largest near-infrared image of space (photo)
In the near infrared, astronomers will be able to observe the earliest galaxies that are farthest from Earth. An international…
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Scientists have learned from ancient asteroids that chaos reigned in the early Solar System
Young solar systems are very chaotic. Cascading collisions occur in them, which also determined the appearance of our Solar system,…
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An unusual radio emission thousands of light-years long was found near the nearest quasar
Astrophysicists have discovered an unusual weak radio emission spreading over tens of thousands of light-years in the parent galaxy of…
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104 asteroids are hiding in plain sight. The new tool helped identify them
As part of the new study, researchers examined 412,000 images from the Digital Archives of the National optical-infrared Research Laboratory,…
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