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
Scientists at Curtin University in Australia discovered rare dust left behind from a supernova explosion inside a meteorite. The discovery is reported in the article, published в The Astrophysical Journal. Researchers used a technique called atom probe tomography to analyze dust particles inside a sample of the ALH 77307 meteorite discovered in Antarctica. This carbonaceous … Read more