A galaxy that was recently discovered by a group of astronomers led by graduate student Jingzhe Ma from the University of Florida using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray...
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A “superearth” type planet named GJ 536 b with a mass around 5.4 the Earth’s mass has been discovered in orbit around a nearby very bright star...
Astronomy professor at University of Florida Jian Ge and his postdoctoral student Bo Ma, believe that everything we know about the formation of solar systems...
Astronomers recently announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth sized planet in its habitable zone. The planet is called Proxima b. On the...
The density of stars increases smoothly as you move towards the center of normal sized galaxies. It has however been known for decades that there is a star...
Results from the most stringent test performed to date shows that the universe is not stretched in any particular direction, nor is it spinning.
Cosmologists...
Magnetars are a type of neutron star with tremendously powerful magnetic fields trillions of times as strong as those of the Sun and they can erupt with...
At the centers of galaxies, supermassive black holes, millions to billions times the mass of our Sun are normally found. The black holes are often hidden by a...
Quasars shine so brightly that they are often referred to as beacons. These are huge black holes and they normally occur at the center of enormous galaxies...
Until recently, the existence of a globular cluster of stars containing several hundred black holes was not thought to be possible. When stars orbit around a...