by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
European astronomers have conducted optical and radio observations of an enigmatic radio source designated GRS 0917+75. As a result, they found that GRS 0917+75 is a giant radio galaxy and determined its properties. The new findings were published July 3 on the...
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
A team of astronomers has discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b—the first planet discovered in the same system—and is among the lightest exoplanets ever imaged from the...
by quasarn01 | Jul 15, 2026 | Astronomy
Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, and their findings may be good news for the standard cosmological model. The new research was reported in a paper submitted to the arXiv...
by quasarn01 | Jul 14, 2026 | Astronomy
Astrobiology has long been split into two camps: a search for “biosignatures” and a search for “intelligence.” These look for very different things, but they also leave a huge gap in between. It took 3.5 billion years for us to go from the...
by quasarn01 | Jul 14, 2026 | Astronomy
Astronomers at Durham University have made a major advance in understanding how galaxies formed and evolved in the early universe. Using powerful new observations, the team discovered the most distant example ever found of a compact, star-forming structure at the...
by quasarn01 | Jul 14, 2026 | Astronomy
Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026, image of stellar nursery LH 95 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Go to Source
