3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (93+ words) image: Sky coverage of FASHI DR2 (blue) compared with ALFALFA (red). The background shows the DESI (green) and SDSS (gray) galaxy distributions. view more Credit: ©Science China Press Just two years after its first data release (DR1), the FASHI team — led by…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (165+ words) A Southwest Research Institute study published in Nature Astronomy looks at what happens with oceans when icy moons experience catastrophic events. This simulation shows a disruptive collision between two small moons. Some material is dispersed into space while the rest…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (55+ words) EurekAlert! Dr. Juliane Bendig, Head of the German FLEX project office at Forschungszentrum Jülich, on the ESA FLEX satellite mission. Prof. Dr. Uwe Rascher Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Plant Sciences (IBG-2) at Forschungszentrum Jülich [email protected] Office: +49 2461/61-2638...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (829+ words) The ancestor to a ‘cluster-of-clusters’ of galaxies has a mass 5000 times that of the Milky Way and lies in one of the densest regions of the cosmic web ever observed COSMOS-z3.1-A was discovered using data from the One-hundred-deg2 DECam…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (654+ words) Astronomers at University of Central Florida are using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory to study a distant icy object that may offer a rare look at how centaurs evolve into active comets image: Charles Schambeau, a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (552+ words) The team behind the detection; from left to right: Dr Zhaoting Chen (Researcher at University of Edinburgh, graduated with PhD from University of Manchester in 2024), Prof Mário Santos (professor at University of Western Cape), Dr Laura Wolz (Reader at University…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (370+ words) image: FAST and DESI reshape our view of cosmic evolution view more Credit: Image by National Astronomical Observatories of China and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar “babies.” Over the past 4.5 billion…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (420+ words) image: False-color, infrared images from the JWST of dual LRDs created using images filtered at wavelengths 1.5 µm, 2.8 µm, and 4.4 µm. The white line in the lower right corner shows the length for about 5000 light years. view more Credit: COSMOS-Web / Tanaka…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (342+ words) Beyond probing the history of the universe, the NASA space telescope will test a new technique for examining exoplanets. image: The NASA space telescope “Nancy Grace Roman” (or Roman for short) is scheduled to launch into space from the Kennedy…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (106+ words) In a recent study of Black parents and their teens, Shardé McNeil Smith, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explored how parents’ levels of appropriated racism affected racial-ethnic socialization messages that affirmed…...