Study investigates emission from a distant red quasar Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international team of astronomers has performed observations of HSC J120505.09−000027.9—the most distant red quasar so far detected […]
Tree rings may hold clues to impacts of distant supernovas on Earth Massive explosions of energy happening thousands of light-years from Earth may have left traces in our planet’s biology and geology, according to new […]
Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails and comae—clouds of […]
Einstein’s theory of relativity, critical for GPS, seen in distant stars What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? The answer […]
Simulations show Webb Telescope can reveal distant galaxies hidden in quasars’ glare Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe and among the most energetic. They outshine entire galaxies of billions of stars. A supermassive […]
Signals from distant stars connect optical atomic clocks across Earth for the first time Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were published in the […]