Hubble Watches the “Flapping” of Cosmic Bat Shadow
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the changing shadow of a planetary disk on background dust and gas clouds, and like a shadow puppet of a bat, it appears to flap dark wings.
Black Hole Collision May Have Exploded with Light
Several years ago, theorists predicted that if a black hole merger occurred in the heart of a galaxy, the merger of the two black holes, under the gravitational influence of a supermassive black hole, could cause the resulting merged black hole to fly out of the heart of the galaxy and into the surrounding material.
LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in “Mass Gap”
In April of 2019, a binary star system of extremely unequal mass was detected merging in a galaxy some 800 million light-years away. The more massive object was a fairly common 23 solar-mass black hole, but the smaller object was estimated to be about 2.6 solar masses, and no one is completely sure if it is a neutron star or a black hole.
The BDS-3 Constellation Deployment Is Fully Completed Six Months Ahead of Schedule
A Long March 3B rocket carried the very last BeiDou 3 into orbit, completing the constellation of satellites for China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, or BDS.
China Long March 2D rocket launched on Wednesday, June 17, 2020
A China Long March 2D rocket launched on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at 7:19 AM (UTC). The rocket carried three satellites to low earth orbit: GaoFen-9 03, HEAD-5, and Pixing-3A.
Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
HIP 67522b is a hot Jupiter found in data from TESS that is orbiting its star every seven days. That star is only 17-million-years old, and that makes this a young planet.
“Exotica” Catalog — One of Almost Everything in the Universe
The Breakthrough Listen project is taking a guidebook approach to listing out what can be found among the stars. They list out more than seven hundred distinct radio targets.
Evidence supports ‘hot start’ scenario and early ocean formation on Pluto
To contain enough heat to keep a liquid ocean, Pluto would have to have formed in under 30,000 years. Any slower, and heat would have time to radiate away to surrounding space instead of getting trapped inside Pluto.
Planets must be formed early
In a new paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics, a team of Dutch observers describes new observations of protostars (still forming) in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, and they found that the conditions in these exceedingly young systems are perfect for planet formation.
Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
Using the full observational range of Hubble, from the ultraviolet all the way out to the infrared, researchers have looked at two previously studied nebulae, NGC 6304 or the Butterfly Nebula, and NGC 7027 which is the Jewel Bug Nebula.
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