Using high-resolution data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST), a research team led by Prof. Yan Xiaoli from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has conducted an in-depth study on the physical properties and oscillations of chromospheric fibrils surrounding a quiescent filament.

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Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space trash that threatens aerospace safety.

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In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white dwarf. Though Earth-sized, this dense remnant will retain much of the sun’s gravitational influence.

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A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star’s surrounding disk, revealing previously unseen structure.

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A radio pulsar is like a cosmic lighthouse, a highly dense, rapidly rotating star that emits beams of radio waves. If Earth happens to be in the path, a “pulse” of radio waves will be detected.

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Using ESA’s Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 87 stellar streams associated with globular clusters (GCs) in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery, which doubles the number of known GC stellar streams, was detailed in a research paper published October 16 on the arXiv pre-print server.

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang—and found they were far more chaotic and messy than those we see today.

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A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve.

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