11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
...with the metal abundances for the Solar System (in astronomy, any element except for hydrogen and helium are...," said project leader Dr Nikku Madhusudhan from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, who first measured low water vapour abundances in ...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... to the team’s research, headed by Harish Vedantham based at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and published today in Nature Astronomy, the star’s radio emissions were unlike either of the two broad categories expected for...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... take additional steps to mitigate their impact on optical astronomy—in fact, higher orbits may worsen the effect in some... engage in similar active steps to study their effects on astronomy,” specify SpaceX in their FCC application. But, whether you ...
03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
... process that would take considerably longer if completed by a person or group of people. "Data science in astronomy has not just made astronomy research more cost-effective, but it also allows us to observe the Universe in a completely different way...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
...eating too much pasta, but the term is used in astronomy to describe how an unfortunate star appears when it wanders... Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, when he conducted the work. “We...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
...equate to a deep ocean layer of 779 (± 650) kilometres, write the team in their research paper published recently in Astronomy and Astrophysics journal. “The datasets have allowed us to determine the properties of these two planets with unprecedented...
