The whole drama played out in flashes of X-ray radiation captured by telescopes on Earth
astrophysics
Astronomers claim to have snapped an image of Proxima c, an exoplanet circling our nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri
But astronomers aren’t holding their breath: They expect the meeting won’t happen for another 100.000 years...
What have you heard about the "String Theory"?
Space-time is indeed churned by massive rotating bodies, as scientists had thought
The results of decadal surveys are crucial, since it is these community-informed documents that the federal government uses as guiding principles
The new ALMA observations have increased the resolution of the images by a factor of ten
Ring Galaxies account for less than 0,1% of all known galaxies, and so they aren't the easiest objects to study
The brightness of the star changes over a period of 21 days
Along with Ceres and Pluto, there are three other known dwarf planets in the solar system – Haumea, Makemake and Eris