Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars.
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars.
Findings reported just weeks into the network’s latest operating run. (Press release)
“We will keep listening for these faint and remote cosmic whispers,” says the physics professor.
Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission.
ESO, ALMA, and APEX contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87. (Press release)
Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.
“If we are very lucky, we might observe something new … or maybe even something totally unexpected.”
The Heising-Simons Foundation selects Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships at MIT.
Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the speed of light.
Halo of highly energized electrons around the black hole contracts dramatically during feeding frenzy.
Measurements indicate a dense, gaseous, “sub-Neptune” world, three times the size of Earth.
Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.