Astronomy

May 3, 2023

Scientists Find Distant Gas Clouds That Will Help Reveal How Our Universe Was Created

Thanks to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, which is run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), we are one step closer to understanding how our universe was created. Researchers have detected three distant gas clouds that appear to have a chemical composition similar to what is expected in the first stellar explosions. In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team led by Andrea Saccardi, a Ph.D.

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April 14, 2023

Supermassive Black Hole Speeding Through Universe Is Creating Stars

Black holes are famous for their gravitational power. The celestial phenomenon draws in matter with a powerful gravitational force through a process called accretion. This powerful force can even destroy stars by ripping them apart. NASA has recently discovered a surprising twist on this classic narrative. A supermassive black hole, ejected from its own galaxy, has been streaking across the universe, actually forming stars in its wake.

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February 16, 2023

Astronomers Discover Surprising Rings Around Dwarf Planet Quaoar

The Solar System is a source of constant amazement. As telescope and imaging technology improves, astronomers learn more about distant worlds we can barely see. One of these is the icy dwarf planet Quaoar, only a third of the diameter of Earth’s moon. It orbits our Sun about 4 billion miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt, a strip of frozen space debris that includes Pluto.

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