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Exceptional Variability in Blazar BL Lacertae Challenges Classification![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 Blazars are a class of active galaxies that direct powerful jets of ionized matter toward Earth. Typically, astronomers categorize them into distinct classes based on the characteristics of their emitted electromagnetic radiation. However, BL Lacertae, a well-studied blazar in the background of the Lacerta (Lizard) constellation, defies this traditional classification system. Astronomers have long believed that blazars could be reliably grouped based on their emission properties, but new observati ... read more |
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![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 Observing distant stars and galaxies comes with a challenge: how much of what we see is affected by cosmic dust? The presence of interstellar dust clouds can make celestial objects appear redder and ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2025 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst Multim ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025 NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission has successfully established communication with ground controllers, confirming th ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025 For over a century, astronomers have been intrigued by Barnard's Star, the closest single-star system to Earth, in their quest to identify planetary bodies orbiting it. Initially observed in 1916 by ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 Researchers from UNSW Sydney have identified a possible new exoplanet-an extrasolar planet-through an approach called transit timing variation (TTV). This technique enabled them to detect subtle shi ... more |
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![]() London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 A groundbreaking study published in Physical Review D by Professor Ginestra Bianconi of Queen Mary University of London introduces a revolutionary approach to understanding gravity through quantum r ... more ![]() ![]() Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might have looked like in its infancy are lost to time. Taking advantage of a so ... more ![]() ![]() Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust, swirling around newly formed stars across the Milky Way. Known as plane ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 The origins of organic molecules-key components of life-remain an open question in astronomy and planetary science. Ice in interstellar environments plays a crucial role in this puzzle, as atoms and ... more |
![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2025 Binary neutron star mergers, occurring millions of light-years away, generate complex gravitational waves that challenge conventional data analysis methods. These signals can span minutes in current ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2025 NASA has implemented energy-saving measures to keep the Voyager spacecraft operational for as long as possible, despite their decreasing power supply. On February 25, mission engineers at NASA ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 Hungarian scientists have uncovered distinctive bacterial communities in thermal waters, offering key insights into the processes behind stromatolite development, some of Earth's most ancient rock f ... more ![]() ![]() Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2025 A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid has developed a new optical computing material from photon ava ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025 An international team of scientists has determined that the fluctuating brightness of SIMP 0136, a free-floating planetary-mass object, results from a complex interplay of atmospheric factors rather ... more |
![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2025 Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in Southwestern Germany are shedding new light on how life might have developed on early Earth. Their latest findings challenge long-standing t ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025 Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) are the most energetic particles known in the universe, with energies exceeding those attainable by human-made accelerators by more than a million times. Despit ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2025 A research team from Tokyo Metropolitan University has made significant progress in the ongoing search for dark matter. Utilizing advanced spectrographic technology and the Magellan Clay Telescope, ... more ![]() ![]() Boston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2025 MIT physicists report the unexpected discovery of electrons forming crystalline structures in a material only billionths of a meter thick. The work adds to a gold mine of discoveries originating fro ... more |
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![]() East Lansing MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2025 Astronomers have long grappled with the question, How do planets form? A new collaboration among Michigan State University, Arizona State University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will s ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 28, 2025 Planetary-mass objects (PMOs) are celestial wanderers, freely drifting through space without being bound to any star. Weighing less than 13 times the mass of Jupiter, these objects have been observe ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2025 Astronomical research has identified nearly 6,000 exoplanets, some of which reside in habitable zones where liquid water may exist on their surfaces. The quest to detect life on these distant worlds ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025 The Andromeda galaxy, situated 2.5 million light-years from Earth, appears to the unaided eye as a dim, spindle-shaped formation comparable in size to the full Moon. However, beyond this faint glow ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Feb 27, 2025 The European Space Agency's gamma-ray telescope ends its observations next 28th February. During its 22 years in space, Integral has reshaped our view of the most dramatic events in the Universe. Th ... more |
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![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has determined that our Solar System journeyed through the Orion star-forming complex, a key structure within the Radcliffe Wav ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 New insights into the extreme atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot Neptune, have emerged from observations conducted using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Led by Louis-Philippe Coulombe ... more ![]() ![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have pioneered the use of gravitational acceleration ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2025 Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reioniza ... more |
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