The Wolfe Disk, a massive rotating disk galaxy in the early universe, was discovered in 2017 when a stargazing project in the Chilean desert examined light from a distant quasar (top left) absorbed in ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and ...
What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...
Recent simulations explore how complex organic molecules may form and be delivered to Europa and Ganymede via Jupiter’s ...
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An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk ...
A model of ultraviolet and optical emission from the tidal disruption event AT 2018hyz is shown in this schematic diagram. As an accretion disk forms quickly after the TDE, it generates x-ray emission ...
An international team of astronomers led by Satoshi Mayama from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan and Ruobing Dong from Princeton University in New Jersey has made observations ...
(Nanowerk News) In our 13.8 billion-year-old universe, most galaxies like our Milky Way form gradually, reaching their large mass relatively late. But a new discovery made with the Atacama Large ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and ...