Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have been studying the sediments within Mars’ Gale crater for many years using orbital data sets, but thanks to the Curiosity

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion that was discovered eight years ago, but is

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Ever since they were discovered in 2018, fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) have utterly surprised and completely confounded both observational and theoretical

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA’s InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO’s Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Flows in planets like Earth are characterized by many features, such as rotation and the difference in temperature between the hot core

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Europa is a prime candidate for life in our solar system, and its deep saltwater ocean has captivated scientists for decades. But

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of astronomers, with the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), have observed a new type

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth’s sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A powerful radio-wave laser, called a “megamaser”, has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find is the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark have identified a distant object with properties

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers at the University of Sydney have found a slimmer type of red giant star for the first time. These stars have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have unexpectedly fluctuated over

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Light on, light off—this is how one could describe the behavior of the nova, which goes by the name RS Ophiuchi (RS

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers has used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles per hour

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have detected 90 gravitational waves signals. Gravitational waves are perturbations in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A powerful radio-wave laser, called a “megamaser”, has been observed by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. The record-breaking find is the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Even in our cosmic backyard, the solar system, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent