(Top panel) Daily number of sunspot groups recorded by all the contemporary observers included in the…
Category: Phys.org
Phys.org
SpaceX rolls out new booster for Cape Canaveral launch
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX launches lately have been pushing the record envelope for booster reflight,…
Astronomers discover spectacular increase in the deuterium to hydrogen ratio in Venus’s atmosphere
Diagram of the proposed Venus mesospheric water cycle mechanism to sustain the observed HDO and H2O…
New view of North Star reveals spotted surface
CHARA Array false-color image of Polaris from April 2021 that reveals large bright and dark spots…
New simulations shed light on stellar destruction by supermassive black holes
Disk formation in an isentropic simulation (radiatively efficient cooling) with a spinning black hole (a =…
Hubble spots a cluster of emission nebulae within the Large Magellanic Cloud
This Hubble image shows a complex cluster of emission nebulae, nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud.…
Supercomputer simulations offer explanation for X-ray radiation from black holes
Visualization shows how the turbulent plasma moves in the magnetized accretion disk corona. Credit: Jani Närhi…
The evolution of the Trappist-1 planetary system
All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside…
A European lander could return an ice core for a fraction of the cost of Europa Clipper
Depiction of the NIMPH mission architecture. Credit: Michael VanWoerkom Cost is a major driving factor in…
Dark matter and stars not interacting as previously thought
One of the team’s Very Large Telescope images showing massive galaxies in a group. The galaxies…