It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret universe that, to this day, ...
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have released the largest infrared map of the Milky Way ever. The enormous dataset contains millions of new objects, and the researchers expect to ...
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Near AB Aurigae, the disk’s inner edge breaks orbital rules, a sign of giant planets forming within
Astronomers studying the young star AB Aurigae have detected gas inside its disk rotating measurably slower than standard ...
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Astronomers capture first live spin of nearby planet-forming disk
A team of astronomers has achieved a breakthrough in observing planetary formation by directly tracking the rotation of a ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the ...
Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue ...
Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...
Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...
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