Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Earth and Mars were formed from material that largely originated in the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth. The emission is

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Every so often, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud throw galactic snowballs made up of ice, dust and rocks our way: 4.6-billion-year-old

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers have identified the first signature of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of our solar system. Earth’s magnetic field acts

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In science fiction stories about contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, there is a problem: What kind of propulsion system could make it possible

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – How did supermassive black holes form? What is dark matter? In an alternative model for how the Universe came to be, as

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The notion of living in a bubble is usually associated with negative connotations, but all life on Earth is dependent on the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A stunning image captured by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, shows one of the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In science fiction movies and television shows, real-life locations on Earth, such as California’s Redwood National Forest and the Sahara Desert, have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Earth’s surface environment hosts large reservoirs of hydrogen (H, mainly in the form of water, H2O), nitrogen (in atmospheric N2) and carbon

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A cosmic object originally classified as a gas and dust cloud actually consisting of three stars could resolve a controversy among astronomers

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The fastest optical flash of a Type Ia supernova has been discovered by a team of astronomers, and is reported in Astrophysical

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have a model of how galaxy cluster collisions go through different stages, taking on various shapes. A blunt body shape turns

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers from Australia, the United States, and Europe has for the first time unlocked the interior structure of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have observed a new type of binary star that has long been

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – No trace of dark matter in the galaxy AGC 114905, despite taking detailed measurements over a course of forty hours with state-of-the-art

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide and fragment.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Ultra-short-period planets are small, compact worlds that whip around their stars at close range, completing an orbit—and a single, scorching year—in less than

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A University of Glasgow-led international team of researchers including those from Curtin’s Space Science and Technology Center (SSTC) found the solar wind, comprised

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies — the biggest of which are the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations. As they

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to determine how

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Brown dwarfs, also known as “coffee colored dwarfs” or “failed stars” are the natural link between stars and planets. They are more massive