Tag Archives: Observations

Each planet in the Solar System has its own idiosyncrasies, but Uranus is truly one of a kind. Not only is it tilted sideways so its axis of rotation is practically parallel …

According to reports from The Astronomer’s Telegram, a star in the Cassiopeia constellation region has just turned nova, and the glow is still visible in the night sky. If you live in …

What we think might have been a switch for star formation doesn’t seem to work that way after all. New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show that the powerful astrophysical jets …

We tend to think of supermassive black holes as relatively stationary things, sitting there in the middle of a galaxy while everything else revolves around it. But that’s not always the case, …

In 2018, a camera aboard the Mars Express mission saw an eerily long and wispy cloud, billowing over the surface of the red planet. From a distance, the 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) trail of …

You may not be very familiar with the planet LHS 3844b, but it now has its own particular distinction: It is the first planet outside our Solar System where astronomers think they …

Astronomers have revisited the first stellar-mass black hole ever identified and discovered that it is at least 50 percent more massive than we thought. The black hole in the Cygnus X-1 binary …

President Biden is trying to meet the target of 100 million Kovid-19 vaccines in 100 days, and if anything that is very modest given the pace of production. One way to improve …

After a five-year hiatus, the State Department on Monday returned Cuba to its list of state sponsors of terrorism. What took so long? Since 1979, the state’s practice of listing “countries providing …

After a five-year hiatus, the State Department on Monday returned Cuba to its list of state sponsors of terrorism. What took so long? Since 1979, the state’s practice of listing “countries providing …