The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope finds two giant planets orbiting a distant star that's just like our sun
astrophysics
A star's death doesn't have to spell doom for its planets
Scientists are still unsure how the black hole could have been created, and how such a powerful blast might have been sent out
Previous machine learning tools have ranked planets’ likelihood of being planets but were unable to determine if they are exoplanets
Over a period of just 40 days astronomers watched as its corona absolutely plummeted in brightness before rising again to shine brighter than before
Scientists have long believed that they should be able to find molecular oxygen in space outside our galaxy but have never previously managed to do so
A star has been sent hurtling across the galaxy after undergoing a partial supernova, astronomers say
It appears to have either been stripped of its gaseous atmosphere, or never failed to form one
Cute, right?
The “ultramassive black hole”, that’s literally a class of black hole, was discovered in 2018