‘Echo mapping’ in faraway galaxies could measure vast cosmic distances When you look up at the night sky, how do you know whether the specks of light that you see are bright and far away, […]
Cosmic cataclysm allows precise test of general relativity In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This was the most intense gamma-radiation ever obtained from such a cosmic […]
The cosmic commute towards star and planet formation The molecular gas in galaxies is organized into a hierarchy of structures. The molecular material in giant molecular gas clouds travels along intricate networks of filamentary gas […]
A binary star as a cosmic particle accelerator With a specialized telescope in Namibia a DESY-led team of researchers has proven a certain type of binary star as a new kind of source for very […]
A cosmic baby is discovered, and it’s brilliant Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of years ago, […]
Astronomers capture rare cosmic ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ behaviour in double star system 19,000 light-years away The strange behavior of a duo of stars in a dense cluster called Terzan 5 located 19,000 light-years from Earth […]