"FU Ori has been devouring material for almost 100 years to keep its eruption going. We have finally found an answer to how ...

Astronomers have observed "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole at the ... for the first time in ...

The paper, "Linear to circular conversion in the polarized radio emission of a magnetar," published in Nature Astronomy describe radio signals from magnetar XTE J1810-197 behaving in complex ways.

The average mass of known black holes of stellar origin in our galaxy is around 10 times the mass ... will be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Studying these pulses, which can also come from mergers of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers ... will orbit around each other, creeping ...

Apr. 30, 2024 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead ...

Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC 19529–4430. It turned out that ...

But thanks to a little bit of serendipity, European astronomers were able to locate the stellar black hole just 2,000 light years from Earth. Scientists wading through data from the European Space ...

Major cuts to its funding could lead to layoffs for half of the observatory’s staff by October and, according to concerned scientists, a premature end to the mission around 2026. Astronomers are ...

Astronomers have gotten better at tracking ... Victor Glover, a nine-year veteran of the astronaut corps who will fly around the moon in 2025, said the search for excellence and diversity were ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen KellY ... and the many visual and physical changes around you. Not all clouds spell disaster for a total solar eclipse. This shot shows a partial eclipse underway behind ...