Tag Archives: Astronomers

[ad_1] A team of astronomers from Israel, the United States and Russia has identified a disturbed galaxy resembling a giant tadpole, with an elliptical head and a long straight tail, located about …

[ad_1] The compact Hickson Group 98 consists of two "spots" in the center of the image. Each is a galaxy very similar to our own milky way. The point between them is …

[ad_1] Barnard's Star, a red dwarf star located in a solar system about six light-years away from Earth, could have company. Researchers in the "exoplanet hunting" group, Red Dots, have detected a …

[ad_1] This artist's concept has a star-shaped supernova progenitor 2017ein-a blue supergiant star that appeared in a spiral galaxy NGC 3938, located 65 million light-years away. It would have exploded as a …

[ad_1] Barnard's Star, a red dwarf star located in a solar system about six light-years away from Earth, could have company. Researchers in the "exoplanet hunting" group, Red Dots, have detected a …

[ad_1] Composite: NASA JL / Caltech & Pixabay Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to orbit) should be …

[ad_1] 0 The North Taurid meteor shower is exposed in the midnight sky for astronomers with patience A stargazer needs a little patience to see the Taurid meteor shower this year. >> …

[ad_1] Astronomers have witnessed, in every detail so far, a brutal David-vs-Goliath clash between two nearby galaxies that are tearing themselves apart and throwing them into the gaseous Magellanic Stream, a cosmic …

[ad_1] Astronomers of University of Warsaw at Poland has identified two "rogue planets" in our galaxy that do not revolve around a star. Unlike the vast majority of discovered planets, these rogue …

[ad_1] See the article here. By looking through thick walls of gas and dust surrounding the messy nuclei of galaxies that merge, astronomers get their best vision, at the sight of tight …