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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel> <title>Astronomy News - Space News, Exploration News, Earth Science News, Earth Science</title> <link>https://phys.org/space-news/astronomy</link> <language>en-us</language> <description>The latest science news on astronomy, space, and astrophysics.</description> <item> <title>New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink</title> <description>Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole's point of no return.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-black-hole-visualization-viewers-brink.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:21:15 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news634227671</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/new-nasa-black-hole-vi.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>The universe could be filled with ultralight black holes that can't die</title> <description>Primordial black holes are hypothetical objects formed during the earliest moments of the universe. According to the models, they formed from micro-fluctuations in matter density and spacetime to become sand grain-sized mountain-massed black holes.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-universe-ultralight-black-holes-die.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:04:02 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news634219441</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/the-universe-could-be.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars</title> <description>MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant signals, which trace back more than 13 billion years to the universe's infancy, are revealing clues to how the very first black holes and galaxies evolved.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-astronomers-elusive-stellar-ancient-quasars.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:41:04 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news634218061</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/mit-astronomers-observ.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Study investigates a nearby M-dwarf binary system</title> <description>Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have explored a nearby binary stellar system composed of two M dwarfs, known as LP 349−25AB. Results of the study, presented April 25 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this system, suggesting that one of its components may be a brown dwarf.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-nearby-dwarf-binary.html</link> <category>Astronomy Planetary Sciences </category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 09:50:01 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news634205561</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/study-investigates-a-n.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Radio astronomers bypass disturbing Earth's atmosphere with new calibration technique</title> <description>An international team of researchers led by astronomers from Leiden University (Netherlands) has produced the first sharp radio maps of the universe at low frequencies. Thanks to a new calibration technique, they bypassed the disturbances of the Earth's ionosphere. They have used the new method to study plasmas from ancient black hole bursts. Potentially, the technique might be useful for finding exoplanets that orbit small stars.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-radio-astronomers-bypass-disturbing-earth.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 05:00:01 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633703681</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/radio-astronomers-bypa.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Hungry, hungry white dwarfs: Solving the puzzle of stellar metal pollution</title> <description>Dead stars known as white dwarfs, have a mass like the sun while being similar in size to Earth. They are common in our galaxy, as 97% of stars will eventually become white dwarfs. As stars reach the end of their lives, their cores collapse into the dense ball of a white dwarf, making our galaxy seem like an ethereal graveyard.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-hungry-white-dwarfs-puzzle-stellar.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 15:16:12 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633968167</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/hungry-hungry-white-dw.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Solar orbiter takes a mind-boggling video of the sun</title> <description>You've seen the sun, but you've never seen the sun like this. This single frame from a video captured by ESA's Solar Orbiter mission shows the sun looking very fluffy! You can see feathery, hair-like structures made of plasma following magnetic field lines in the sun's lower atmosphere as it transitions into the much hotter outer corona. The video was taken from about a third of the distance between the Earth and the sun.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-solar-orbiter-mind-boggling-video.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 13:19:40 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633961178</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/solar-orbiter-takes-a-1.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>What can AI learn about the universe?</title> <description>Artificial intelligence and machine learning have become ubiquitous, with applications ranging from data analysis, cybersecurity, pharmaceutical development, music composition, and artistic renderings.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-ai-universe.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 12:45:05 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633959102</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/what-can-ai-learn-abou.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Astronomers inspect population of young stellar objects in open cluster NGC 346</title> <description>Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored young stellar objects (YSOs) in an open cluster known as NGC 346. The study, published April 24 on the preprint server arXiv, yields crucial information about the properties of YSO population in this cluster.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-astronomers-population-young-stellar-cluster.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 08:00:01 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633885725</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/astronomers-inspect-th.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>The Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW) proposal</title> <description>Humankind has never before seen the low frequency radio sky. It is hidden from ground-based telescopes by the Earth's ionosphere and challenging to access from space with traditional missions because the long wavelengths involved (meter- to kilometer-scale) require infeasibly massive telescopes to see clearly.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-great-observatory-wavelengths.html</link> <category>Astronomy Space Exploration </category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 13:16:21 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633874578</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/the-great-observatory.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Fluidic telescope (FLUTE): Enabling the next generation of large space observatories</title> <description>The future of space-based UV/optical/IR astronomy requires ever larger telescopes. The highest priority astrophysics targets, including Earth-like exoplanets, first generation stars, and early galaxies, are all extremely faint, which presents an ongoing challenge for current missions and is the opportunity space for next generation telescopes: larger telescopes are the primary way to address this issue.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-fluidic-telescope-flute-enabling-generation.html</link> <category>Astronomy Space Exploration </category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 13:16:17 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633874571</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/fluidic-telescope-flut.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>X-ray satellite XMM-Newton sees 'space clover' in a new light</title> <description>Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf suggest it was created by clashing groups of galaxies.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-ray-satellite-xmm-newton-space.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 10:42:03 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633865321</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/x-ray-satellite-xmm-ne.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>NASA/JAXA's XRISM mission captures unmatched data with just 36 pixels</title> <description>At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) satellite captures revolutionary science with just 36 of them.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-nasajaxa-xrism-mission-captures-unmatched.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 11:38:03 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633782282</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/nasajaxas-xrism-missio.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>A 'cosmic glitch' in gravity: New model may explain strange behavior on a cosmic scale</title> <description>A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential "cosmic glitch" in the universe's gravity, explaining its strange behavior on a cosmic scale.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-cosmic-glitch-gravity-strange-behavior.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 11:04:48 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633780285</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/-a-cosmic-glitch-in-gr-1.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Euclid telescope: Scientist reports on his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy</title> <description>On July 1, 2023, Euclid, a unique European space telescope was launched from Cape Canaveral. The launch was undoubtedly the highlight of my career as an astronomer, but witnessing the result of years of work being put on a rocket is not for the faint of heart. Following a perfect launch, Euclid swiftly arrived to its planned orbit, about 1.5 million km aways from Earth. From this distant vantage point, it has started sending back sharp images that will cover nearly one-third of the sky by the end of this decade.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-05-euclid-telescope-scientist-quest-nature.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 10:47:05 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633779221</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/euclid-telescope-a-sci.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>New observatory in Chile—the highest in the world—aims to reveal origins of planets, galaxies and more</title> <description>How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries out there marks its opening on April 30, 2024.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-observatory-chile-highest-world-aims.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:00:01 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633707010</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/worlds-highest-observa.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Astronomers significantly impact the climate by traveling to conferences, say researchers</title> <description>In 2019, global travel to international academic conferences in the field of astronomy caused the equivalent of 42,500 tons of climate-damaging CO2 emissions. This equates to an average of one ton of CO2 per participant and conference. The total distance covered adds up to a truly astronomical sum: one and a half times the distance between the Earth and the sun.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-astronomers-significantly-impact-climate-conferences.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:09:20 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633701357</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/astronomers-significan.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Citizen scientists help discover record-breaking exoplanet in binary star system</title> <description>A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, including two stars and potentially another exoplanet.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-citizen-scientists-exoplanet-binary-star.html</link> <category>Astronomy Planetary Sciences </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:15:38 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633698133</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/citizen-scientists-hel.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Novel calculations peg age of 'baby' asteroid</title> <description>An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it is orbiting another asteroid last November is,, in fact,, a solar system toddler—just 2–3 million years old, a Cornell-led research team estimates using novel statistical calculations.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-peg-age-baby-asteroid.html</link> <category>Astronomy Planetary Sciences </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:08:04 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633697681</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/novel-calculations-peg.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Clouds blanket the night side of the hot exoplanet WASP-43b</title> <description>Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers, including scientists from MPIA, constructed a global temperature map of the hot, gas giant exoplanet WASP-43b. The nearby parent star perpetually illuminates one hemisphere, raising temperatures to a blistering 1250°C. Meanwhile, eternal night shrouds the opposite side.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-clouds-blanket-night-side-hot.html</link> <category>Astronomy Planetary Sciences </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:17:05 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633694621</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/clouds-blanket-the-nig.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Researchers explore an old galactic open cluster</title> <description>Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Turkey and India have investigated NGC 188—an old open cluster in the Milky Way. Results of the study, published April 19 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver important insights into the parameters and properties of this cluster.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-explore-galactic-cluster.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:50:02 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633690530</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/researchers-explore-an.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Astronomers' simulations support dark matter theory</title> <description>Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter—matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to explain several aspects of the observable universe—exists, according to the researchers, who include those at the University of California, Irvine.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-astronomers-simulations-dark-theory.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:48:04 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633689282</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/dark-matter.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Q&A: How to catch a glimpse of a new star about to appear in the night sky</title> <description>If you peer up at the constellation Corona Borealis—the Northern Crown—over the next several months, you may catch a glimpse: Astronomers predict that sometime this year, a new star will appear in the night sky, growing as bright as the North Star, then vanishing in a matter of days.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-qa-glimpse-star-night-sky.html</link> <category>Astronomy Space Exploration </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:33:17 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633623591</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/a-new-star-is-about-to.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Neutron stars could be capturing primordial black holes</title> <description>The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core. Astronomers have tried to explain this for years. One of the more interesting ideas comes from a team of astronomers in Europe and invokes dark matter, neutron stars, and primordial black holes (PBHs).</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-neutron-stars-capturing-primordial-black.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:56:04 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633621361</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/neutron-stars-could-be.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Hubble spots magnificent barred galaxy NGC 2217</title> <description>The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, this barred spiral galaxy is a similar size to our Milky Way at 100,000 light-years across. Many stars are concentrated in its central region forming the luminous bar, surrounded by a set of tightly wound spiral arms.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hubble-magnificent-barred-galaxy-ngc.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:51:02 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633621061</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/hubble-spots-a-magnifi.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>NASA's Hubble pauses science due to gyro issue</title> <description>NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency's Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode April 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue. Hubble's instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-hubble-science-due-gyro.html</link> <category>Astronomy Space Exploration </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:50:02 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633621001</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/nasas-hubble-pauses-sc.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Einstein probe opens its wide eyes to the X-ray sky</title> <description>The first images captured by the innovative mission were presented at the 7th workshop of the Einstein Probe consortium in Beijing. They illustrate the satellite's full potential and show that its novel optics, which mimic a lobster's eyes, are ready to monitor the X-ray sky. The space X-ray telescope zoomed in on a few well-known celestial objects to give us a hint of what the mission is capable of.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-einstein-probe-wide-eyes-ray.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:48:04 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633620882</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/einstein-probe-opens-i-1.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes</title> <description>More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson Observatory changed the conception of humankind's place in the universe and revealed the mysteries of the heavens to generations of citizens and scientists alike. Ever since then, the United States has been at the forefront of "big glass."</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-america-big-glass-dominance-fate.html</link> <category>Astronomy Space Exploration </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:40:01 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633610511</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2021/astronomers.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Revealing the origin of unexpected differences in giant binary stars</title> <description>Using the Gemini South telescope a team of astronomers have confirmed for the first time that differences in binary stars' composition can originate from chemical variations in the cloud of stellar material from which they formed. The results help explain why stars born from the same molecular cloud can possess different chemical composition and host different planetary systems, as well as pose challenges to current stellar and planet formation models.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-revealing-unexpected-differences-giant-binary.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:28:04 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633612481</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/gemini-south-reveals-o.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> <item> <title>Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail</title> <description>The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These observations show a part of the iconic nebula in a whole new light, capturing its complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution.</description> <link>https://phys.org/news/2024-04-webb-captures-iconic-horsehead-nebula.html</link> <category>Astronomy </category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:26:52 EDT</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">news633605206</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2024/webb-captures-iconic-h-1.jpg" width="90" height="90" /> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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