Glacial ice carves its way downhill.
It has taken over ten years, but astronomers have finally won a prolonged game of cosmic hide-and-seek with a planet hiding around the star Beta Pictoris.
“Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn’t see these four stars directly.”
The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks to teamwork by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
For the first time, astronomers have directly mapped the magnetic field surrounding one of the Milky Way’s most unusual pulsars, confirming a decades-old prediction about how particles stream away from the rapidly spinning stellar corpse.
What could we be looking at?
“We are trying to protect science and our investment in space.”
Sub-Neptune exoplanets could have atmospheres so dense and crushing that rock is vaporized to form clouds that trap heat at the surface of the planet.
The Extremely Large Telescope is looking quite large in this exciting moment.
A feeding black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to cosmic titans that existed just after the Big Bang.