28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
...powerful jets that astronomers were able to observe with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories. The record-...pervading the cluster is revealed through X-ray observations from XMM-Newton (shown in pink), radio data from the Giant...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... – a phenomena that had been puzzling scientists for decades. Now thanks to a new analysis of data from ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope and NASA’s Juno spacecraft, a team of researchers have found that ions ‘surfing’ electromagnetic waves in Jupiter...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... extermination 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
... though 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 ...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
...optics deployed on star-mapping spacecraft, such as ESA’s XMM Newton mission. This is the one of the biggest satellites ...optics deployed on star-mapping spacecraft, such as ESA’s XMM Newton mission launched in 1999, have been re-purposed by companies ...
