17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
...best look yet at an interstellar visitor — Comet 2I/Borisov — which is believed to have arrived here from another planetary system elsewhere in our galaxy. This observation is the sharpest view ever of the interstellar comet. Hubble reveals a central...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... radio astronomy, such as producing the first image of a black hole or understanding more about the formation of the planetary systems, were only possible through concentrated efforts in safeguarding the radio sky from interference”. Radio frequency...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... that these heavier elements would be recycled in to future generations of stars and contribute to building planetary systems," said Benjamin Oppenheimer, a research associate in the Center for Astrophysics & Space Astronomy (CASA) at CU-Boulder...
20 June 2016
Trio of hot Jupiters give clue to their formation
... by other planets and dynamical interactions with the still present circumstellar disk. In simulations of growing planetary systems, models have revealed that a jam-packed nascent environment can become strongly destabilised by stellar encounters...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
... paper. Luckily, this huge temperature difference should be easily observable. "When astronomers look into new forming planetary systems, just measuring the temperatures in the planet's vicinity will be enough to tell which formation mechanism built...
27 February 2017
Thirty years in the making - researchers show SN1987A in all of its glory
... us understand how it forms and how supernovas seed interstellar space with the raw material for new planetary systems." Aside from the dust, astronomers are also still looking for evidence of a neutron star or a black hole...
