A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Reported by Universe Today
Future gravitational wave observatories will be able to see the gravitational waves of close-orbiting binary stars. A newly studied white dwarf system could be one of the first systems we observe....
- By: Brian Koberlein (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/brian)
- On: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:30 +0000
Snapping the Sun's Grand Magnetic Border at 0.3 AU
Reported by Universe Today
Out in the solar system, there is a giant rippling curtain of charged particles that is actually the largest structure in our solar system. Known as the Heliospheric Current Sheet (HCS), it marks the spot where the sun flips its magnetic north and south po...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:26 +0000
Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia
Reported by Space | EarthSky
A small asteroid impact will occur in the next few hours near NW Australia. The meteor should harmlessly burn up in Earth's atmosphere and poses no danger.
The post Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia first appeared on EarthSky....
- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:19 +0000
Could life exist on Venus? Peptides survive harsh acid.
Reported by Universe Today
The planet Venus is arguably the most mischievous planetary body in the solar system. This is because like Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, Venus is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that can’t be viewed with optical telescopes and require radar images to se...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:40 +0000
APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon’s Shadow
Reported by NASA
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 5 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating unive...
- By: NASA
- On: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:05 +0000
The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey Releases the Largest 2-D Map of the Universe
Reported by Universe Today
The newest DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map covers three-quarters of the sky and catalogs nearly four billion objects. This publicly-available database contains stars, galaxies, supernovae, gravitational lenses, and much more....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:30 +0000