10 May 2016
When sunspots are minimal, the solar magnetic field is at a maximum, say researchers
...of Excellence and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, used a global computer model of the Sun to seek... is nontrivial. Through centuries of recording sunspot numbers, researchers know that sunspot cycles occur roughly every 11 years....
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... to Astronomy and Astrophysics journal by lead author M.Min from the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. This recent research suggests that the amount of water ice detected in the outer disk of HD 142527 requires around 80 percent...
29 June 2016
Researchers detect interstellar organic materials being fed into a young planetary system
A massive rotating ring of organic molecules, with a radius 50 times wider than the Earth’s orbit, has been detected around a Solar-type protostar, showing that interstellar organic materials are being fed into a rotating disk structure that ...
01 February 2017
Researchers find substantial observational evidence for a holographic Universe
... universe is encoded!” said Professor Kostas Skenderis from the University of Southampton, UK and one of the members of the research team who have recently submitted their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters. Sketch of timeline of the...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... most likely made of silicate, iron, and other interstellar matter. Due to their triple-layer appearance, the research team has described the accretion disk as very similar to a hamburger. The complete study of the accretion disk...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
Using the positions of supermassive black holes, astronomers have created a precise map of the expansion of the Universe over the last 10 billion years. The map, created by an international collaboration of scientists using the Sloan Digital Sky ...
