Astronomy Picture Of The Week: Spiral Snapshot (Astronomy) 5 Apr 2021 The luminous heart of the galaxy M61 dominates this image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark tendrils of dust. As well as the usual bright bands of…
Astronomy Decades of Hunting Detects Footprint of Cosmic Ray Superaccelerators in Our Galaxy (Astronomy) 31 Mar 2021 Record-breaking gamma rays bathe the Milky Way in an energetic haze An enormous telescope complex in Tibet has captured the first evidence of ultrahigh-energy gamma rays spread across the Milky…
Astronomy MIT Astronomers Discover New Galaxy Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (Astronomy) 29 Mar 2021 Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say. MIT astronomers have discovered new and unusual galactic neighborhoods that previous studies overlooked. Their results, published today, suggest…
Planetary Science Peering into a Galaxy’s Dusty Core to Study an Active Supermassive Black Hole (Planetary Science) 18 Mar 2021 Researchers using NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will map and model the core of nearby galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is a giant of a galaxy, but its appearances…
Astronomy Ancient Light Illuminates Matter That Fuels Galaxy Formation (Astronomy / Cosmology) 16 Mar 2021 Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has begun to unveil the material which fuels…
Planetary Science IMAGE RELEASE: Cosmic Lens Reveals Faint Radio Galaxy (Planetary Science) 16 Mar 2021 Radio telescopes are the world’s most sensitive radio receivers, capable of finding extremely faint wisps of radio emission coming from objects at the farthest reaches of the universe. Recently, a…
Astronomy Hubble Views a Galaxy with Faint Threads (Astronomy) 15 Mar 2021 This unusual lenticular galaxy, which is between a spiral and elliptical shape, has lost almost all the gas and dust from its signature spiral arms, which used to orbit around its center. Known…
