A fluffy hot jupiter has an orbit that doesn't line up with the rotation of its star.
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. . Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in This artist's illustration depicts what astronomers call a tidal disruption event , or TDE , when an object such as a star wanders too close to a black hole and is destroyed by tidal forces generated from the black hole's intense gravitational forces . Credit : NASA CXC . M.Weiss Posted on April 30, 2023 April 30, 2023 by Carolyn Collins Petersen A Black Hole Tore a Star to Pieces . The Closest We’ve Ever . Seen We all know that black holes are destructive monsters . Their tremendous gravitational pull sucks in anything that gets in the way . This is particularly true for supermassive black holes in the hearts of galaxies . They can tear apart stars . And , every so
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in This image of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover at the rim of Belva Crater was taken by the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during the rotorcraft's 51st flight on April 22, 2023, the 772nd Martian day , or sol , of the rover's mission . At the time the image was taken , the helicopter was at an altitude of about 40 feet 12 meters Check out the chopper's shadow in the lower right , and Perseverance off in the distance at upper left . Courtesy NASA . JPL-Caltech Posted on April 28, 2023 April 28, 2023 by Carolyn Collins Petersen Ingenuity Snaps Another Shot of Perseverance on the Move Our favorite Martian helicopter did it again . The tiny Ingenuity chopper recently did its
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument MIRI is shown here , wrapped in its aluminized thermal shield while being integrated into the JWST Integrated Science Instrument Module ISIM Credit : NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Chris Gunn Posted on April 28, 2023 April 28, 2023 by Nancy Atkinson JWST’s MIRI Instrument is Having Problems Again Last week , NASA shared a blog post saying they detected a sensor glitch associated with the James Webb Space Telescopeâ s Mid-Infrared Instrument MIRI For some reason , the sensor for MIRIâ s Medium Resolution Spectroscopy MRS is receiving less light than expected at the longest . wavelengths NASA is investigating the cause , and said that the
When it comes to supernovae, what is the minimum safe distance for habitable planets? Larger than we thought.
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Using the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), an international team of astronomers has detected millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations from a low-mass X-ray binary known as 4U 1730–22. The finding was reported in a paper published March 29 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomers have recently observed a low-mass X-ray binary known as IGR J17407−2808 with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton space telescopes. In result, they detected several fast X-ray flares from this source. The finding was reported in a paper published April 18 on the arXiv pre-print repository.
Astrophysicists have been trying to understand the formation of cosmological objects and phenomena in the universe for decades. Past theoretical studies suggest that quantum fluctuations in the early universe, known as primordial quantum diffusion, could have given rise to so-called primordial black holes.
An international team of space scientists has found evidence suggesting that planets could have formed during the so-called "cosmic noon." In their study, reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study a part of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to learn more about planet development around young stars.
An international team of astronomers have employed India's AstroSat spacecraft to observe a system of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5291. Results of the observational campaign, published April 6 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, yield crucial information regarding star-formation activity in this system.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of Padua, Italy, and elsewhere have observed a metal-poor globular cluster known as Messier 92. The observations deliver crucial information regarding multiple stellar populations in this cluster. Results were published April 12 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Using the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have investigated the atmosphere of MASCARA-4b—a distant "ultra-hot Jupiter" exoplanet. The study, published April 11 on the arXiv pre-print server, resulted in the detection of rubidium and samarium in an exoplanet's atmosphere for the first time.