#Astrophysics

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From Quantamagazine RSS Feed: Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors

This Hubble image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 reveals its bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure.

Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from.…

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars.…

University of Cincinnati astrophysicist Paul Smith is part of an international team studying TOI-2031Ab, a gas giant orbiting a star 901 light years from Earth. Smith and his colleagues used the James Webb Space Telescope to study its atmosphere.

The solar system is now at the edge of this cloud, but the massive stockpile of cosmic stardust has left signatures on Earth's southernmost region.

From Towards Data Science: Using Transformers to Forecast Incredibly Rare Solar Flares

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the first to make studying the galactic bulge a part of its core science objectives.

Scientists may have uncovered a surprising secret behind why life exists at all. A new study suggests that the Universe’s fundamental constants — the deep physical rules that govern everything from atoms to stars — appear to sit within an incredibly…

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches are more dynamic than we thought

Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for being a planet, putting Pluto into the new category of dwarf planet

A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began.…

Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically low on energy, forcing NASA to make careful sacrifices to keep its mission going.…

A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong?

A decades-old cosmic mystery has finally been cracked: the strange X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas are caused by a hidden stellar companion feeding off it.…

In this new picture from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53

My boss (mid 50s, medical doctor) is super into astrophysics. He has read a lot of books and papers and always comes in to work with a fun fact about the neurons in the brain numbering the stars in the sky etc.…

In the chaotic first moments after the Big Bang, ripples in spacetime may have done more than just echo through the cosmos—they could have helped create dark matter itself.…