Tag: Astronomers
Astronomers have seen the debris of a planet falling on its star for the first time
When our Sun reaches the end of its life, it will first begin to grow exaggeratedly. Then it will shrink. Transforming into a white dwarf. What will then become of…
Astronomers have tracked a star’s dying agony until it exploded into a supernova
We had never had the chance to monitor a star to the point of seeing it explode into a supernova. It’s done and at least in the case of SN…
Astronomers surprise an “intruder” in the heart of a star system
He clearly broke in. This “intruder” that astronomers have surprised at the heart of the star system Z Canis Majoris (Z CMa). But for the first time, they were able…
172 new exoplanets, including 18 systems, in the net of astronomers!
There are currently nearly 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. And astronomers keep finding new candidates. Still in the archives of the Kepler Space Telescope today. They report the discovery of no less…
Astronomers have tracked down closest pair of supermassive black holes known to us
Supermassive black holes are everywhere in the observable cosmos. They are sometimes found in pairs in a galaxy, to the point of forming a binary supermassive black hole. The closest…