Safely Observe The Solar Eclipse
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
In the United States, solar eclipses do not happen as frequently as they do around the world, and Americans get super hyped about the prospect of viewing the Moon pass in front of the Sun. Though viewing a solar eclipse will be quite memorable, safety is p...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:21:48 EDT
What Killed Galaxies in the Early Universe?
Reported by Universe Today
Galaxies in the infancy of the Universe are the building blocks of more modern galaxies. They began as small "shreds" of material that coalesced over time to form larger ones. That's why astronomers use observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope ...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:00 +0000
Primordial Black Holes Can Trigger Type Ia Supernovae, and Astronomers Should be Able to Find Them
Reported by Universe Today
Primordial black holes (PBH) remain hypothetical, but that isn't stopping astrophysicists from figuring out how they could interact with other stellar objects. New research shows how PBHs, formed in the early Universe from collapsing pockets of dense subat...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:22 +0000
Radio Array Detects Polarized Light From a GRB
Reported by Universe Today
On March 10, 2026, the Fermi telescope gamma-ray burst team reported the detection of a long-duration gamma ray burst that occurred when a star exploded inside a dense, highly magnetized cloud of hydrogen gas. That HII region is a bubble of ionized hydroge...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:57 +0000
NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission
Reported by NASA
NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the International Space Station, serving as an Expedition 76 flight engineer. Burnham will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-30 spacecraft with cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Bor...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:11 +0000
The ELT's Spectrograph Could Sniff Out Biosignatures on Other Worlds
Reported by Universe Today
Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We’re starting to see some come through for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which hopefully will get a more imaginative name when...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:40 +0000