Tag: Astronomers
Jean-Pierre Luminet tells us his extraordinary and unusual stories of astronomers
After publishing his musical autobiography, astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet resumed his writing as a historian-novelist of science to give us nine extraordinary and unusual stories of astronomers in the form of…
A long cloud on Mars, “at the gates of the interplanetary vacuum”, discovered by amateur astronomers
As part of a participatory science program, while the objective was to detect polar auroras on Mars, French amateur astronomers observed and photographed a 3,000 kilometer cloud in the upper…
Take the pulse of a black hole, astronomers have done it!
In an attempt to elucidate a twenty-year-old mystery, astronomers wanted ” to take the pulse “ of the most massive stellar black hole they know. According to them, the jets…
Taking the pulse of a black hole: astronomers know how to do it!
In an attempt to elucidate a twenty-year-old mystery, astronomers wanted ” to take the pulse “ of the most massive stellar black hole they know. According to them, the jets…
The remnants of a kilonova detected by astronomers for the first time?
By studying the GW170817 signal, resulting from the merger of two neutron stars and resulting, among other things, in a kilonova, a team of astronomers points out the singular nature…
This black hole like no other questions astronomers
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Remains of galaxies devoured by the Milky Way found by astronomers
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] In video: the collision of the Milky Way with the Andromeda galaxy The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way are approaching each…
These stars challenge astronomers in their understanding of stellar evolution
You may also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Incredibly realistic simulation gives birth to stars To unlock the secrets of star formation, astronomers rely on simulations. The one developed by a…
Unistellar citizen astronomers observed hundreds of exoplanets and asteroids in 2021
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Test of the Unistellar eVscope, a telescope like no other We tested the eVscope from the French startup Unistellar. EV for “enhanced vision”,…
The development that excites the scientific world! Turkish astronomers discovered two planets in space
Ankara University Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences Head and Lecturer Prof. Dr. Selim Osman Selam, research assistant from the same department Ekrem Murat Esmer, Assoc. Dr.…