20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
... by a three-way squeeze of forces from its own gravity, coupled with the influence of both a star and a...-Neptunian objects, as Pluto is constrained in its orbit by the gravity of Neptune and it shares its orbital neighbourhood with Kuiper belt objects...
30 August 2018
Unstoppable monster galaxy puzzles and enlightens astronomers
... way star formation in galaxies is self-regulating. But, in COSMOS-AzTEC-1, the pressure is far weaker than the gravity, which at the moment means only one outcome; runaway star formation. While popping out stellar offspring...
20 May 2019
A thin layer of ice-trapped gas stops Pluto's oceans from freezing
... bulge region – means that Sputnik Planitia has what is called a positive gravity anomaly. Put simply, this means that the area has more gravity than predicted by models of the dwarf planet. One way to contribute to the...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
...from the black hole than we originally thought and the light isn't so affected by the object's extreme gravity," said S. Bradley Cenko, Swift's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In total, astronomers...
