03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... sight of its lander, JUNO arrived at Jupiter and sent some images back, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft jetted off towards Bennu and Philae’s final resting place was found shortly before Rosetta ended its...
05 January 2017
Astronomers pinpoint location of mysterious fast radio bursts
... – a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field – or an active nucleus in the host galaxy. In this situation jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole would produce these energetic radio bursts...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
...of a single object. "This neutron star wears two different hats," said Walid Majid, astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "Sometimes it's a pulsar. Sometimes it's a magnetar. This object may tell us something about...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... observations will allow scientists to understand how material accretes around black holes, as well as how extremely fast jets of gas that blast out from them are formed. Other goals include testing Einstein’s theory of general...
