14 November 2016
Mysterious Quark Nova lights up an exploding star for a second time
...-nova was responsible for the curious features of ASASSN-15lh, a supernova that was spotted by the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) in the southern constellation Indus. The research paper, whose lead author...
11 October 2017
Have astronomers found the missing mass in the Universe?
...'dovich effect between ∼260,000 pairs of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG’s) taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. They suggest that the apparent over-density of baryons could be due to filaments in merger systems that...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... from over 7000 quasars, and combining them with UV observations from the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with additional information from NASA’s Chandra and Swift X-ray observatories, the duo set...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
... a low-frequency signal from a quiescent red dwarf called GJ 1151, in data gathered from LOFAR’s Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), which was then cross-referenced against observations from the Gaia data release 2 database...
16 June 2021
Astronomers discover the largest rotating objects in the Universe
We know that the Moon spins around our planet, Earth spins around the Sun, and the Solar System spins around the galaxy. But it doesn’t stop there. Stretching 100, 000 light years across, the Milky Way also spins at a whopping 270 kilometers per ...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... one of a handful of new planets that has been discovered by TESS as it scanned its first two sectors in the sky. Currently orbiting a nearby, bright K dwarf star located approximately 16 parsecs away, HD21749b is an exoplanet which currently stands...
