January 28, 2019. July 21, 2020. All rights reserved. The Hubble Space Telescope, which will celebrate its 30th birthday this April, has images cosmic mirages that yield two remarkable cosmological results. By: Monica Young But…, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern…, More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez,…, The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. The theory is as follows: 5G, being the fifth generation of wireless cellular technology, was rolled out in 2019 and 2020. It is understood that stars were forming at a very…, The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of our Milky Way galaxy has been made by combining data from…, Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely different kind of star than previous endeavors. The universes are a cycle of death and birth – all hinged on black holes. Content on this website is for information only. Time crystals sound like something out of science fiction, but they may be the next major leap in quantum network research. By: Govert Schilling January 13, 2020. The latest data release from a survey of 31 million galaxies reveals that our universe is even smoother than we thought it was.
By: Govert Schilling March 19, 2020. By: Monica Young Astronomers have tallied how star-making material evolved over cosmic time — and they've predicted how long stars will keep forming before the universe goes dark. By: Monica Young June 22, 2020. Hubble Sheds Light on Dark Matter and Cosmic Expansion. By: Monica Young Here you’ll find Sky & Telescope’s coverage of the latest discoveries in cosmology. It is not intended to provide medical or other professional advice. Have any problems using the site? Sep. 28, 2020 — A top goal in cosmology is to precisely measure the total amount of matter in the universe, a daunting exercise for even the most mathematically proficient. Dark matter remains a viable alternative explanation. Sky & Telescope is part of AAS Sky Publishing, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Astronomical Society. The revised…, Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one…, As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a…, Einstein’s theory of General Relativity is world famous – but it might not be the only way to explain how gravity works and how galaxies…, Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision. 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Now astronomers have found a way to detect them. Astronomers observing a distant galaxy have dramatically shrunk the range of possible properties of a long-predicted — but never-detected — subatomic particle. September 2, 2020. HaloSat, a mini-satellite recently deployed from the International Space Station, is on the hunt for the universe's missing matter. Nearly 11 billion years ago, the universe churned out stars at a rate 10 times greater than today. Astronomers Chart Star Formation History, Glimpse Fate of the Universe, Record-breaking Signal Reveals New Population of Black Holes, Our Unexpectedly Smooth Universe May Point to New Physics, New 3D Map of the Universe — and a Growing Cosmological Debate, A Mysterious X-ray Signal Has Gone Missing, Astronomers Rein in Possibilities for Exotic Particle, White Dwarf’s Whirlwind Spin Drags Spacetime, Hubble Sheds Light on Dark Matter and Cosmic Expansion. 'Cosmic Ring of Fire' 11 Billion Years Ago: How Did Structures in Early Universe Form? Get the latest science news with ScienceDaily's free email newsletters, updated daily and weekly. There are ghosts in our galaxy’s past. By: Christopher Crockett One of theories is the “conformal cyclic cosmology” (CCC) theory that he presented in 2005. Astronomers have used observations of a tight white dwarf-neutron star pair to confirm an aspect of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily, its staff, its contributors, or its partners. Are you interested in knowing what happened a long time ago in galaxies far, far away? July 25, 2018. Should We Blame Pulsars for Too Much Antimatter? September 13, 2020. Sky & Telescope, Night Sky, and skyandtelescope.org are registered trademarks of AAS Sky Publishing LLC. October 3, 2019. Study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard raises doubts about basic assumption for the universe. June 25, 2018. Conspiracy theorists believe that the radiation spread from 5G towers is solely responsible for coronavirus and that before 5G there was no coronavirus. Or view hourly updated newsfeeds in your RSS reader: Keep up to date with the latest news from ScienceDaily via social networks: Tell us what you think of ScienceDaily -- we welcome both positive and negative comments. By: Monica Young It detected them using the transit technique, measuring the dip in light intensity….
