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Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest flash of radio waves ever seen and have tracked this fast radio burst (FRB) back to its source. This feat could revolutionize theories surrounding these mysterious and rapid blasts of radiation that, in mere milliseconds, can emit as much energy as the sun does in its entire lifetime. First spotted in 2007, …

Astronomers discover strange new type of supernova: ‘This is the first time we have seen a star that was essentially stripped to the bone’  Space Onionlike Space Explosion May Be a New Type of Supernova  The New York Times Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site  Nature Supernova Reveals What The Inside of a Star Really Looks Like  ScienceAlert Astronomers have …

Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in question are Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs), recently discovered outbursts of X-rays that last for just a few minutes. The source of FXTs has been shrouded in mystery. Now, with the …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ursa Major III, a faint star cluster over 30,000 light-years away, may be bound by hidden black holes instead of dark matter. | Credit: CFHT/UNIONS/S.Gwyn A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a dark-matter-dominated dwarf …

Astronomers spotted a never-before-seen, bite-sized moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the ice giant’s follower count to 29. The moon is so small and faint—well below the detection threshold of NASA’s Voyager 2 probe—that scientists believe Uranus may host many more undiscovered, tiny moons. The moon, provisionally named S/2025 U1, first entered the view of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on …

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …

An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes around the world from disruptive interference from satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Big constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink bring high-speed internet to people in remote, under-connected areas. But they also stain optical telescope images with streaks and disrupt observations by radio telescopes — …

“We’re Seeing Something Massive”: Astronomers Detect Possible Ninth Planet Beyond Neptune And Trigger Global Shock Over Discovery  Rude Baguette It’s bigger than Earth, but invisible: new warning from astronomers  Catalunya Diari ‘Temperatures around -200°C’: NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite may have found evidence of Planet Nine  WION An undiscovered giant may be lurking at the edge of our solar system  TechCentral Source link

“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …

A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy or a star cluster bound by a hidden swarm of black holes? Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light-years. It is a compact stellar …