An international team of astronomers has for the first time discovered a super-Earth that is tidally locked, meaning one of its hemispheres is forever facing its parent star. The discovery is reported in the article, published in The Astrophysical Journal. The researchers observed exoplanet LHS 3844b and analyzed data from the Spitzer Space Telescope to … Read more
Astronomers from the University of Victoria (Canada) and Yale University (USA) have discovered an ancient star system that is a satellite of the Milky Way, called Ursa Major III/UNIONS1 (abbreviated as UMa3/U1). The discovery is reported in the article, published in The Astrophysical Journal. The observations were made using the Keck Observatory telescope, the Canada-France-Hawaii … Read more
The three-hour observations were made using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. According to scientists, they did not expect to find so many galaxies with a high content of atomic hydrogen in such a short time. Three groups of galaxies rich in atomic hydrogen could potentially be part of a supergroup. In addition, some … Read more
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that, like lighthouses, emit beams of electromagnetic radiation. The fastest spinning pulsars with a spin period of less than 30 milliseconds are known as millisecond pulsars (MSPs). It is assumed that they form in binary systems, with the neutron star spinning up due to the accretion of matter from the … Read more