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Astrophysics
Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
Just a black hole munching on a star
When a black hole consumes a star, it produces a "tidal disruption event." The shredding of the star causes an…
Observation, simulation, AI reveal a clear universe
Japanese astronomers innovated an artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise in astronomical data that…
The first microsecond of the Big Bang
A team of researchers from University of Copenhagen delved into what happened to a specific kind of plasma, the…
What composes 70 percent of our universe?
Until now, 70 percent of the universe was thought to be composed of dark energy, aiding in its expansion at an…
CERN laser cools antimatter for the first time
Swansea University physicists, leading members of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, just published a paper in Nature…
Blame It on Jupiter: Venus Might Have Been Habitable Without Its Influence
Missions to Mars have been planned since the 1950s, when the concept of life on Mars first seemed to captivate the…
Auroral Beads Precede Space Substorms
Auroras, the disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind, are one of the most beautiful and easily…
Citizen Scientists Help Astronomers Find 100 Cool Brown Dwarfs
The power of many is increasingly being harnessed as scientists and citizen scientists work together to collect…
Researchers Measure 2017 Solar Flare’s Magnetic Fields
The Carrington Event of 1859 that disrupted telegraph communications globally is both the world’s best known solar…
Colliding Star May Have Caused Black Hole’s Corona to Disappear
Black holes, the regions in spacetime where gravity is so strong nothing can escape, have fascinated astronomers…