30 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... planetesimals," Marengo and his colleagues wrote in the new study, which was published this month in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The scientists hypothesize that a family of comets on a long elliptical orbit may have caused the...
04 December 2015
Rare Lithium-Rich Star Discovered
... for better understanding of stellar evolution. The results of their research are published in the December issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics journal.
15 December 2015
First British Astronaut Leaves for ISS Today
... science they'll get to perform while aboard: projects that will span human research, biology and biotechnology, astrophysics research. Peake particularly called out a medical research task, where they will grow crystals from disease...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... compact massive object is a black hole,” said Oka, the lead author of the paper that appeared in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Black holes can be roughly categorised into two different sizes: stellar-mass black holes...
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
using the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, Xin-glong Station, and Australian Astronomical Observatory. The central star known as HD 47366 is larger than ...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... now developing a 4,000-pixel microcalorimeter array for the European-led Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics mission, expected to launch late next decade. ASTRO-H has been built by a major international collaboration led by JAXA...
