Most known planets orbit a star. These planets, including Earth, benefit from the star’s warmth and light. And it is the light emitted from these stars which makes it possible for us to see them. But there are also “invisible” planets, hidden from our gaze, which float, abandoned, through the cosmos. These dark, lonely worlds have no star to orbit, no…
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Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Burst To Extreme, Rare Star
The first detection of a fast radio burst inside the Milky Way leads scientists back to a magnetar, partially solving a long-standing mystery. CNET reports: Sifting through a trove of radio telescope data in 2007, Duncan Lorimer, an astrophysicist at West Virginia University, spotted something unusual. Data obtained six years earlier showed a brief, energetic burst, lasting no more than 5…
Weird space radio signal tracked to its source for the first time
Strange blasts of radio waves called fast radio bursts have been spotted all over the cosmos, and now astronomers have figured out where one came from Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258758-weird-space-radio-signal-tracked-to-its-source-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
First light on a next-gen astronomical survey toward a new understanding of the cosmos
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation collected its very first observations of the cosmos at 1:47 a.m. on October 24, 2020. This groundbreaking all-sky survey will bolster our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies—including our own Milky Way—and the supermassive black holes that lurk at their centers. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-next-gen-astronomical-survey-cosmos-1.html…
Next-gen astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation collected its very first observations of the cosmos at 1:47 a.m. on October 24, 2020. This groundbreaking all-sky survey will bolster our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies—including our own Milky Way—and the supermassive black holes that lurk at their centers. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-next-gen-astronomical-survey-cosmos.html…
Rogue world found drifting through the galaxy
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized world that is drifting freely through the cosmos without a parent star. Free-roaming planets that are untet… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340476/rogue-world-found-drifting-through-the-galaxy…
New CubeSat will observe the remnants of massive supernovas
Scientists at CU Boulder are developing a satellite about the size of a toaster oven to explore one of the cosmos’ most fundamental mysteries: How did radiation from stars punch its way out of the first galaxies to fundamentally alter the make-up of the universe as it we know it today. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-cubesat-remnants-massive-supernovas.html…
New feature found in energy spectrum of universe’s most powerful particles
Particles smaller than an atom hurtle through the universe nearly at the speed of light, blasted into space from something, somewhere, in the cosmos. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-feature-energy-spectrum-universe-powerful.html…
Astrophysics team lights the way for more accurate model of the universe
Light from distant galaxies reveals important information about the nature of the universe and allows scientists to develop high-precision models of the history, evolution and structure of the cosmos. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-astrophysics-team-accurate-universe.html…
A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe’s missing mass
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos’s mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. (A mysterious…