Tag Archives: Telescope

[ad_1] Chalmers University of Technology Studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion observed in April 2020, a team of scientists led by Chalmers used four European radio telescopes to confirm that astronomy’s most exciting puzzle is about to be solved. Fast radio bursts, the unpredictable millisecond radio signals seen …

[ad_1] Its mission is to understand the links between a planet’s chemistry and its environment by plotting approximately 1,000 known planets outside our Solar System, providing scientists with a complete picture of what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they formed. will evolve. The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared …

[ad_1] One of the most venerable radio telescopes in the world is on the brink of catastrophe, triggering a frenzied race by engineers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to save it after breaking two critical cables supporting a 900-ton equipment platform. The platform, held aloft on an enormous …

[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally adopted Ariel, the first mission dedicated to the study of the nature, formation and evolution of exoplanets. More than 50 institutes from 17 countries, including the University of Oxford, have worked over the past five years to develop the scientific objectives and …

[ad_1] Credit:N. Hanacek / NIST JILA researchers used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continuous improvements in watches have value beyond timekeeping. Older atomic clocks operating at microwave frequencies have already searched for dark matter, but this is the first …

[ad_1] Long ago and throughout the universe, a huge explosion of gamma rays released more energy in half a second than the sun will produce during its 10 billion years of life. After examining the incredibly bright burst with optical, X-ray, near-infrared and radio wavelengths, an astrophysics team led by …

[ad_1] Over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust are thought to fall on Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids and comets that pass close to Earth. Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each …

[ad_1] Who says you can’t get hotter with age? Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions have found that, on average, the temperature of galaxy clusters today is 4 million degrees Fahrenheit. This is 10 times hotter than 10 billion years ago and four times hotter than the Sun’s …

[ad_1] What you are seeing in this stunning image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile is something that has never been observed anywhere else: a planetary nebula made up of two closely linked stars orbiting a third outer star. That third star wasn’t sighted until centuries after the …

[ad_1] If you thought living on Earth in 2020 was comparable to hell, planet K2-141b is here to prove you wrong. On the hot planet, hundreds of light years away, the oceans are made of molten lava, the winds reach supersonic speeds, and the rain is made up of rocks. …