BrainCan - astronomy

midsummer boulevard light pyramid in milton...

Milton Keynes,located pretty much in the middle of England, is one of the "unusual towns" built in...

stockholm observatory in stockholm, sweden

Stockholm’s oldest observatory,a shimmering orange building that crowns a hilltop, was completed...

why mapping the galaxy will be child s play

As satellites such as the European Space Agency’s Gaia provide astronomers with increasingly huge...

waiting for halley

On a cold December night in 1758,a German farm-owner from Dresden stood resolute in the restful,...

meet musica and poltergeist: astronomers rename...

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.The International Astronomical Union has...

the third brightest object in the sky

In December,the first British European Space Agency Astronaut, Tim Peake, and will be heading to the...

white dwarf with almost pure oxygen atmosphere...

A trio of researchers,two with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and the other with...

watch a star get devoured by a supermassive black...

Likely,in a moment of tranquil downtime, you've wondered: Just what would happen if a star, or...

gnomon of saint sulpice in paris, france

whether you've read Dan Brown's bestselling mystery "The Da Vinci Code" you would know...

measuring the shape of the milky ways black hole

At the heart of our galaxy's center is SagA*,a supermassive black gap containing about four...

t tauri stars

A newborn star typically goes through four stages of adolescence. It begins life as a protostar...

no fireworks in the galactic center

The center of our Milky Way galaxy,approximately twenty-five thousand light years from Earth, is...

starwatch: find mercury, with a little help from...

Mercury can be difficult to spot in the twilight sky,but this week Venus, the unmissable bright...

star formation in distant galaxy clusters

The first stars appeared about one hundred million years after the tall bang,and ever since then...

they ve just discovered planet nine. but is it...

The novel discovery may be 10 times the size of our Earth,but surely our own home is still the most...

lonely planet found wandering a mere 80 light...

Astronomers say discovery of 12m-year-dilapidated free-floating planet will provide view into inner...

carl sagan sent music photos into space so that...

A popular thought experiment asks us to imagine an advanced alien species arriving on soil,not in an...

the properties of pre stellar cores

Stars like the Sun start their lives as cold,dense cores of dust and gas that collapse under the...

100 years on, is this einstein s greatest gift to...

The detection of gravitational waves will open up a novel spectrum of the universe – finally...

researchers determine physical conditions of two...

(Phys.org)—Located approximately 1530 light years from the soil in the constellation of...

todays gravitational wave announcement could be...

nowadays’s expected announcement may not be just one noteworthy discovery but two because of the...

mercury rising - the planets as you have never...

When Nasa first sent lunar probes into space,the world got a glimpse of the moon and soil in orbit....

nasa lets you download free posters celebrating...

A quick fyi: Last year,NASA released 14 Free Posters That Depict the Future of Space Travel in a...

neil degrasse tyson is creating a new space...

Although Neil deGrasse Tyson is somewhat hesitant to depart in on plans to terraform and colonize...

evidence suggests huge ninth planet exists past...

Astronomers investigating the odd alignment of rocks beyond Pluto have concluded that an undetected...

the worlds most powerful radio telescope: the...

The SKA,which will be split between sites in Australia and South Africa, will peer back into the...

chance microlensing events probe galactic cores

Some galaxies pump out huge amounts of energy from a very small volume of space,typically not much...

how do i ... see the northern lights?

Getting to see aurora borealis is down to the whims of space weather,which is nearly as unreliable...

milky way over grand canyon

I shot these at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park during the Labor day weekend. Grand...

swift gamma ray bursts—a 3d step toward standard...

A new way to utilize the most powerful explosions in the Universe to calibrate its expansion has...

the turbulent interstellar medium

The gas in galaxies is typically seen to be moving at very rapid,even supersonic velocities,...

pulsation driven winds in giant stars

Nearly all stars fill winds. The Sun's wind,which originates from its hot outer layer (corona),...

possible signature of dark matter annihilation...

We live in a dramatic epoch of astrophysics. Breakthrough discoveries like exoplanets,gravity waves...

observed cosmic rays may have come from two...

(Phys.org)—High-energy protons,nuclei, and other particles are constantly showering down on...

blue moon: how to see tonight s rare event

Tonight’s blue moon will be easy to see,but the name has nothing to effect with its colour and...

here you go, it s official: space force. seriously...

Space Force is here. For genuine. The President said he was going to create it,and now the White...

scientist suggests possible link between...

unlit matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the fabric universe,now widely thought to...

manchester astronomers detect precious element in...

A team of astronomers from The University of Manchester,together with collaborators from the Centro...

what are the chances of life on another planet?

In an infinite universe,most scientists agree, the odds of life existing on a planet besides soil...

the hot problem of black hole firewalls

For the last four years,physicists studying the mathematical underpinnings of black holes have been...

how do massive young star clusters form?

Young massive star clusters are systems of stars with more than about ten thousand solar-masses of...

clocking the rotation rate of a supermassive black...

A recent observational campaign involving more than two dozen optical telescopes and NASA's...

black holes banish matter into cosmic voids

We live in a universe dominated by unseen matter,and on the largest scales, galaxies and everything...

five brightest planets appear in straight line...

Scientists say the reason for the unusual early morning sight is that the planets will be on the...

new comet v1 machholz fujikawa iwamoto takes...

You just never know when it comes to comets. Here it is,mid-November, and we'd thought we had...

so cool! japanese space research center will be...

The architectural design behind Japan’s recent space research center is intellect-boggling. The...

new dwarf planet found in the outskirts of the...

Astronomers believe found a modern dwarf planet way out beyond Pluto that never gets closer than 65...

good night kepler. nasa s planet hunter is almost...

The Kepler mission is coming to an close. The planet-hunting spacecraft that transformed our...

the aligned spin of a black hole

A black gap in traditional theory is characterized by having "no hair," that is, it is so simple...

surprise: small elliptical galaxy actually a giant...

Astronomers bear believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively...

planet devouring star reveals possible limestone...

A group of researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered a planet-like body that may...

a blazing gamma ray source

Blazars are galaxies whose central,supermassive black holes are accreting material from surrounding...

hunting for hidden life on worlds orbiting old,...

All throughout the universe,there are stars in varying phases and ages. The oldest detected Kepler...

wtf is that?! the space debris and asteroids...

In the next week,our planet will experience one near miss and one impact. What else is heading our...

icecube scientists open a window on to subatomic...

Thousands of optical sensors beneath the surface of the south pole detect neutrinos from deep...

mars find suggests our solar system is awash with...

Within the space of a few weeks liquid water has been declared to exist on Mars (Is there life on...

rocky planet found orbiting habitable zone of...

An international team of astronomers including Carnegie's Paul Butler has found clear evidence...

orphaned protostars

Stars form as gravity contracts the gas and dust in an interstellar cloud until clumps develop that...

newborn exoplanet discovered around young star...

Planet formation is a complex and tumultuous process that remains shrouded in mystery. Astronomers...

stargazers hope to spot mercury in transit

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Members of the Amateur...

l1551 irs 5: a curious case of a young and active...

(Phys.org)—L1551 IRS 5 is a young binary star,only approximately half a million years old. Due to...

researchers find evidence of a real ninth planet

Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre,highly elongated orbit...

tips for telescope buying

One of the most common questions we bag at the Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory is...

lisa pathfinder set to launch, paving way for...

Tomorrow’s mission is designed to test technology which,whether successful, will allow us to...

scientists are using artificial intelligence to...

How in the world could you possibly search for inside a star? You could crash out the scalpels and...

comet 46p wirtanen rounds out 2018

One. More. Comet. Though the next much 'Comet of the Century' has yet to make its...

gravitational waves were only recently observed,...

Neutron stars scream in waves of spacetime when they die,and astronomers have outlined a plan to...

cosmic neighbors inhibit star formation, even in...

The international University of California,Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of...

resolving the planetesimal belt around hr8799

Planets develop from the dusty placental disk of material that surrounds a star after it begins to...

an equation to quantify the origins of life on...

(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers,one with the Columbia Astrobiology Center in novel York, the...

tiny, ancient galaxy preserves record of...

The lightest few elements in the periodic table formed minutes after the Big Bang. Heavier chemical...

a source accelerating galactic cosmic rays to...

For more than 10 years the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia,rush by an international collaboration of...

the milky ways central molecular zone

The center of our Milky Way galaxy lies about 27000 light-years absent in the direction of the...

the prolonged death of light from type ia...

Three years after its explosion,a type Ia supernova continues to shine brighter than expected, new...

a winter shower of shooting stars

Less than two weeks before Christmas,the strong Geminid meteor shower will reach its peak, with up...

leaving the cradle: kim stanley robinson on...

Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky once said, "The soil is the cradle of humanity,...

messier 71 - the ngc 6838 globular cluster

Welcome back to Messier Monday! nowadays,we continue in our tribute to our dear friend, Tammy...

this star killed its companion and is now escaping...

Our universe is capable of some truly frightening scenarios,and in this case we beget an obvious...

spiral arms: protoplanetary disk around a young...

Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust...

milky way had a blowout bash six million years ago

The middle of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black gap...

what do aliens look like? the clue is in evolution

Speculating approximately what aliens recognize like has kept children,film producers and scientists...

3 d galaxy mapping project enters construction...

A 3-D sky-mapping project that will measure the light of millions of galaxies has received...

gravitational lens zooms in on why some quasars...

Mini-jets of material ejected from a central supermassive black hole appear to be the culprits...

ultra sharp image uncovers the shocking lives of...

An unprecedented view from the Gemini South telescope in Chile probes a swarm of young and forming...

ligos twin black holes might have been born inside...

On September 14,2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected...

a peek into the merging galaxy cluster abell 3888

(Phys.org)—Studying substructures of galaxy clusters can reveal distinguished information about...

a new eye on the cosmos

A state-of-the-art viewing instrument will assist Tufts astronomers seeking to respond the deepest...

how mission delays hurt young astronomers

Back in Ye Olden Times,the job of astronomer was a pretty exclusive club. Either you needed to be so...

surprising discovery. four giant planets found...

What precisely is a normal” solar system? If we thought we had some notion in the past,we...

scientists observe a superluminous supernova that...

Supernovae are among the most violent phenomena in the universe. They are huge explosions that stop...

kepler confirms more than 100 planets in single...

An international team of astronomers hold discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds....

behind the scenes of protostellar disk formation

For a long time the formation of protostellar disks – a prerequisite to the formation of planetary...

seti institute calls for new tools in search for...

The SETI Institute Director of Research,proposed a broader, multidisciplinary approach to the SETI...

newborn giant planet grazes its star

For the past 20 years,exoplanets known as 'hot Jupiters' beget puzzled astronomers. These...

astronomers discover two new giant lithium rich...

(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers,led by Rodolfo Smiljanic of the Nicolaus...

hubble captures birthday bubble

This current NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image,released to celebrate Hubble's 26th year in...

journey to the center of our galaxy

Peering deep into the heart of our domestic galaxy,the Milky Way, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

wise reveals the x shaped bulge of our galaxy

Using a set of coadded images taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer...

are asteroid fragments drifting around a distant...

(Phys.org)—WD 1145+017,a white dwarf star located some 570 light years from the Earth, captured...

astronomers find six new millisecond pulsars

(Phys.org)—NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has once again proven that it is an...

one trillion kilometres apart—a lonely planet...

A team of astronomers in the UK,USA and Australia have found a lonely planet, until now thought to...

jupiter assembling: planet 96 light years away...

Astronomers find 51 Eridani b,an infant at 20m years old that is still cooking and throwing off...

life on mars? scientists say pictures are first...

• This article was published on 7 December 2006• 2015: Nasa scientists find evidence of flowing...

migrating exoplanets

Many known exoplanets orbit close to their host star,within one-tenth of an astronomical unit (one...

astronomers identify a young heavyweight star in...

Astronomers absorb identified a young star,located almost 11000 light years absent, which could help...

a new kind of black hole, once a theory, now...

Astronomers Aaron Smith and Volker Bromm of The University of Texas at Austin,working with Avi Loeb...

computer models predict how the first clumps of...

Our universe came to life nearly 14 billion years ago in the Big Bang—a tremendously energetic...

lifes first handshake: chiral molecule detected in...

Like a pair of human hands,certain organic molecules acquire mirror-image versions of themselves, a...

cometary belt around distant multi planet system...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio observatory in Chile...

hubble spies a spiral snowflake

Together with irregular galaxies,spiral galaxies make up approximately 60 percent of the galaxies in...

probing dark energy with clusters: russian doll...

These four galaxy clusters were part of a large survey of over 300 clusters used to investigate...

could earths light blue color be a signature of...

In 1990,Voyager 1 captured the most distant portrait of our planet ever taken, revealing that from...

physicists discover rare brown dwarf, essential...

A team led by Justin Crepp,the Frank M. Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of...

a new view of the x ray sky

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) acquire revisited the...

speedy planet birth: astronomers observe a clump...

Observations using the VLA radio telescope array in recent Mexico show the innermost portion of a...

gravitational waves offer glimpse into the past -...

Einstein was right – changes in gravity accomplish spread as waves through space. The LIGO...

rotational clock for stars needs recalibration

fresh work from a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Jennifer van Saders indicates that one...

astronomers discover largest known structure in...

Scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a...

carnival of space 587

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next colossal Future blog. Click...

to find evidence of life on exoplanets, scientists...

Finding potentially habitable planets beyond our Solar System is no easy task. While the number of...

astronomers spot a massive black hole that s gone...

Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory,astronomers have found evidence of a “wandering” black hole...

the ultraviolet diversity of supernovae

Supernovae,the explosive deaths of massive stars, are among the most momentous events in the cosmos...

new low mass objects could help refine planetary...

When a star is young,it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk of gas and dust,...

nasas fermi mission expands its search for dark...

Dark matter,the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the fabric universe, remains as...

astronomers find new, ancient source of...

Light from a distant galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground...

astronomers discover dizzying spin of the milky...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature,Science, and the Arts (LSA)...

astronomers discover a giant inflated exoplanet...

(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant extrasolar planet that...

mosh pits in star clusters a likely source of...

Northwestern University astrophysicists acquire predicted history. In a modern study,the scientists...

universes first life might have been born on...

Our soil consists of silicate rocks and an iron core with a thin veneer of water and life. But the...

image: hubble spies a spiral snowflake

Together with irregular galaxies,spiral galaxies originate up approximately 60 percent of the...

new tool refines exoplanet search

Planet-hunting is an ongoing process that's resulting in the discovery of more and more planets...

gravitational wave search provides insights into...

recent results from NANOGrav - the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves -...

planet formation in earth like orbit around a...

The star TW Hydrae is a popular target of study for astronomers because of its proximity to soil...

investigating the mystery of migrating hot...

The last decade has seen a bonanza of exoplanet discoveries. Nearly 2000 exoplanets—planets...

first discovery of a binary companion for a type...

A team of astronomers including Harvard's Robert Kirshner and Peter Challis has detected a...

hubble breaks cosmic distance record

By pushing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to its limits astronomers maintain shattered the...

subaru hiciao spots young stars surreptitiously...

An international team led by researchers at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and...

new model shows earth may be more unique than...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers,three with Swedish Institutions and one from the U.S. has...

unmistakable jupiter nears opposition

Alan Pickup looks at our largest planet,currently outshining the brightest stars, and its attendant...

green pea galaxies may have reheated the universe...

Swiss scientists may contain found the respond to a troubling mystery approximately the early...

northern lights visible much further south in uk...

The aurora borealis,a relatively common occurrence within the Arctic circle, was seen in northern...

monster gamma ray burst in space sets record for...

Explosion 3.7bn light years absent witnessed through orbiting telescopes in April was far stronger...

using the missing physics of stellar feedback to...

For the first time,astronomers are able to accurately simulate galaxies from shortly after the grand...

first exomoon found! a neptune sized moon orbiting...

A pair of astronomers combing through data from the Kepler spacecraft have discovered the first...

studies find echoes of black holes eating stars

Supermassive black holes,with their immense gravitational pull, are notoriously valid at clearing...

the supernova that wasnt: a tale of three cosmic...

In the mid-1800s,astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something...

discovery one ups tatooine, finds twin stars...

A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of...

simulations suggest venus may have once been able...

A team of researchers with NASA,Uppsala University, Columbia University and the Planetary Science...

accelerating research into dark energy

A quick method for making accurate,virtual universes to help understand the effects of gloomy matter...

scientists detect radio emission from a nearby...

(Phys.org)—Located some 23 light years absent,the brown dwarf designated WISEP J060738.65+242953.4...

earth size telescope tracks the aftermath of a...

Radio astronomers contain used a radio telescope network the size of the soil to zoom in on a unique...

image: hubble sees new dark spot on neptune

unusual images obtained on May 16,2016, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence...

young super neptune offers clues to the origin of...

A team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of a young planet,only 11 million years old, that...

computer simulations shed light on the milky ways...

current computer simulations from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide a conclusive test for...

astronomers discover a giant planet spinning up...

(Phys.org)—A giant "hot Jupiter" exoplanet has recently been detected by an international team of...

finding aliens may be even easier than previously...

Finding examples of intelligent life other than our own in the Universe is tough work. Between...

new stars discovered in the rho ophiuchi dark...

An international team of astronomers led by Ignazio Pillitteri of the Palermo Astronomical...

mysterious happenings around the star kic 846852

The Kepler satellite was designed to search for Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of stars...

interplay of magnetic fields and gravitation in...

Space bears witness to a constant stream of star births. And whole star clusters are often formed at...

italian scientists detect chemical anomalies in a...

(Phys.org)—Globular clusters beget for a long time been considered as formed of stars with similar...

hubble sees a star inflating a giant bubble

For the 26th birthday of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope,astronomers are highlighting a Hubble...

lone planetary mass object found in family of...

In 2011,astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In fact,...

image: hubble frames a unique red rectangle

The star HD 44179 is surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle. It...

astronomers determine the structure and...

(Phys.org)—HD 189733b,located some 64 light years away, is the closest "hot Jupiter" exoplanet to...

the apus constellation

The southern hemisphere is replete with beautiful stars and constellations,enough to hold a...

radio halo discovered in a massive merging galaxy...

(Phys.org)—Radio halos are immense regions of diffuse radio emission,generally found at the...

the february night sky

February has probably our best evening skies of the year and,this time around, one additional day in...

assassin supernova discovered that is 570bn times...

Astronomers find brightest star explosion ever,located 3.8bn light-years away, which is more...

globular clusters could host interstellar...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed,holding a...

searching for water in the atmosphere of a neptune...

(Phys.org)—HAT-P-26b is an inflated,Neptune-mass exoplanet located approximately 437 light years...

earth like world could be most important planet...

GJ 1132b is close enough for telescopes to observe any atmosphere it might enjoy,which could help...

gaia spots an enormous ghost galaxy right next...

Astronomers combing through data from the ESA’s Gaia spacecraft enjoy discovered what they’re...

we could build a powerful laser and let any...

A powerful laser is just the thing to announce our presence as a technological species in this arm...

whoa. that s the milky way, bouncing off the moon...

The universe wasn’t always such a well-lit position. It had its own Dark Ages,back in the days...

twin jets pinpoint the heart of an active galaxy

An international team of astronomers has measured the magnetic field in the vicinity of a...

starving black hole returns brilliant galaxy to...

The mystery of a scarce change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a...

venus like exoplanet might have oxygen atmosphere,...

The distant planet GJ 1132b intrigued astronomers when it was discovered last year. Located just 39...

chinas lunar based telescope observes a binary...

(Phys.org)—China's Chang'e-3 mission landed on the moon in December 2013 and deployed a...

black hole makes material wobble around it

The European Space Agency's orbiting X-ray observatory,XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of...

deepest ever look into orion

An international team has made use of the power of the HAWK-I infrared instrument on ESO's Very...

alma finds a swirling, cool jet that reveals a...

A Chalmers-led team of astronomers have used the Alma telescope to effect the surprising discovery...

alma discovers dew drops surrounding dusty spiders...

Astronomers acquire spotted glowing droplets of condensed water in the distant Spiderweb Galaxy –...

universe becoming cleaner as cosmic dust gets...

An international team of astronomers today (29 June) released a gazetteer of the hidden...

scientists find a new way to see inside black...

Scientists at Towson University and the Johns Hopkins University are reporting a new way to peer...

a young mammoth cluster of galaxies sighted in the...

Astronomers acquire uncovered evidence for a vast collection of young galaxies 12 billion light...

footprints of baby planets in a gas disk

A fresh analysis of the ALMA data for a young star HL Tauri provides yet more firm evidence of baby...

astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma...

A University of Oklahoma team has detected for the first time the most luminous gamma-ray emission...

faintest early universe galaxy ever, detected and...

An international team of scientists has detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy...

examination of ancient text reveals details of ibn...

(Phys.org)A trio of German researches has uncovered evidence of the Arabic scholar Ibn Sina's...

new herschel maps and catalogues reveal stellar...

ESA's Herschel mission releases nowadays a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in...

finding other earths—the chemistry of star and...

In the last two decades, humanity has discovered thousands of extrasolar planetary systems. Recent...

the april night sky

The sky at nightfall at present has Jupiter resplendent (brilliantly glowing) in the SE as Orion...

new theory helps explain and predict the activity...

Researchers possess developed a original conceptual framework for understanding how stars similar to...

star forming ring spotted around distant...

(Phys.org)—Astronomers occupy spotted a star-forming ring around a distant star Kappa Ori,located...

sharpest view ever of dusty disc around aging star

As they approach the ends of their lives many stars develop stable discs of gas and dust around...

search narrows for planet nine along sprawling...

French astronomers say they enjoy used modelling to halve the area where theoretical new...

first detection of super earth atmosphere

For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class...

astronomers detect five new hot jupiters

(Phys.org)—Giant exoplanets,like the so-called 'hot Jupiters' that are similar in...

astronomers detect ultra weak magnetic fields in...

(Phys.org)—A team of astronomers led by Aurore Blazère of the Paris Observatory has discovered...

microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that...

Australian scientists first detected interference in 1998,which they assumed was from lightning...

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