Astronomers

Astronomers Detect Spin-Down Glitch in Distant Magnetar

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense...

SpaceX and astronomers come to agreement on reducing Starlink astronomy impact

The National Science Foundation and SpaceX have come to an agreement on how to mitigate the damage to ground-based astronomy that Starlink satellites present...Read...

Astronomers Release Gargantuan Survey of Milky Way’s Galactic Plane

The second data release of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects. The post Astronomers Release Gargantuan Survey...

Astronomers Detect Radio Signal from Strongly Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy

Astronomers have captured a radio signal at a specific wavelength known as the 21 cm line from SDSS J0826+5630, a star-forming galaxy that existed...

Radio Astronomers Discover New Supernova Remnants in Milky Way Galaxy

Using the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes in Australia, astronomers have observed a large section of the Galactic plane of the Milky Way. The post...

Astronomers Discover Short-Lived Superheavy Neutron Stars

Astronomers have examined data about 700 short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and Compton Gamma...

Astronomers celebrate performance of JWST

Six months after the release of the first science images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers and NASA officials say the observatory continues...