March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... in another sense one must wait until science itself became an identifiable part of society. Take, as an example, Isaac Newton who no doubt many would describe as a physicist or an astronomer. The title however of his 1687 magnum opus is Principia...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
... that astronomers were able to observe with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories. The record-breaking... the cluster is revealed through X-ray observations from XMM-Newton (shown in pink), radio data from the Giant Metrewave...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
...thanks to a new analysis of data from ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope and NASA’s Juno spacecraft, a team of researchers have...place. By matching computer simulations with observational data taken by XMM-Newton and Juno, a team led by Zhonghua Yao, at the ...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... process as telescopes on and off the globe, such as NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Swift, ESA's XMM-Newton and ground-based 1-metre telescopes in the global Las Cumbres Observatory network, quickly followed-up TESS’s initial...
11 January 2021
Strange star unlike any seen before, scientists say
... because the heavier elements sink towards the core. However, when the team pointed ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope at J005311, it’s chemical composition showed unusual amounts of silicon, sulfur and neon and evidence that...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
It seems there is a problem with the early history of the Universe and to fix it, scientists will have to invoke a new type of physics say the authors of a new study, who after looked at a large sample of distant ‘active’ galaxies found a flaw with ...
