Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at […]
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 […]
Hubble sees swirls of forming stars At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured beautifully in this image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Located in the […]
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 […]
Fast-rotating stars at the centre of the Milky Way could have migrated from the outskirts of the galaxy In a research paper published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astrophysicists, including scientists from […]
Indian astronomers discover 70 new variable stars Astronomers from India have conducted a long-term photometric variability survey of an open cluster known as NGC 559. As a result, they detected 70 new variable stars in […]