Mars Elliptical galaxy

1st fast radio burst traced to old, dead, elliptical galaxy

First fast radio burst traced to old, dead, elliptical galaxy

For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical galaxy—an unprecedented home for a phenomenon previously associated with much younger galaxies.

Ars Technica · 7h

Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers

Astronomers have observed over a thousand of them to date; some come from sources that repeatedly emit FRBs, while others seem to burst once and go silent. You can produce this sort of sudden surge of energy by destroying something.

StudyFinds on MSN · 4h

Dead galaxy sends 22 powerful radio bursts, defying scientific explanation

In a nutshell Astronomers have discovered repeated radio burst signals coming from an unprecedented location – 40,000 light-years away from the center of an ancient, inactive galaxy located 2 billion light-years from Earth.

Science Daily · 1d

Astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts: A recent one calls that into question

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young star clusters.

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Mars opposition 2025: How to see the Red Planet at its biggest and brightest

There is an official date for the opposition of Mars, but that's not the only night to observe it. The Red Planet will actually be brighter three days earlier, when it's closer to Earth (a ...

Daily Galaxy on MSN4mon

How Mars Lost Its Water: NASA’s Hubble and MAVEN Solve Long-Standing Mystery

Mars’ elliptical orbit brings it closer to the Sun during certain parts of its year, causing rapid changes in the ...

Space.com9d

Mysterious spiral galaxy jet puzzles astronomers: 'At first, I thought I completely messed up'

"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a ...

PBS5y

Catalogue of the Cosmos

It lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ... Dwarf galaxy—The smallest and most common kind of galaxy. Elliptical galaxy—A galaxy that appears round or elliptical and lacks a disk ...

Hubble's largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across ...

15h

NASA built new tires for Mars. They're nothing like your tires.

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and footage from testing of a novel tire, called a shape memory alloy spring tire ...

22h

How to Watch the Rare Planet Parade Twinkle Across the Night Sky

Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...

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Mars’ Greatest Mystery Solved: Scientists Uncover the Forces Behind Its Divided Terrain

Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long puzzled scientists with a dramatic geological contrast between its hemispheres, ...

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