Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due to the huge gravity

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) astronomers released new observations of nearby galaxies that resemble colorful cosmic fireworks.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A newly discovered visitor to the outer edges of our solar system has been shown to be the largest known comet ever, thanks

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The science instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope to operational status, and the collection of science data will now resume, NASA reports. This

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory examines the repercussions after two galaxy clusters clashed. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Cornell scientists say phosphine’s chemical fingerprints support a different and important scientific find: evidence of explosive volcanoes on the mysterious planet. Maat

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A binary system HD 265435, with an orbital period of less than a hundred minutes has been discovered by astronomers. It consists

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A Moon-scanning method that can automatically classify important lunar features from telescope images could significantly improve the efficiency of selecting sites for exploration.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times. This phenomenon

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Known as ultraluminous X-ray sources ( ULXs), the emitters are easy to spot when viewed straight on, but they might be hidden from

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – When gravitational waves were first detected in 2015 by the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), they sent a ripple through the scientific community,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes is finally solved. The X-rays are

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scientists are set to uncover the secrets of a rare meteorite and possibly the origins of oceans and life on Earth, thanks

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The first convincing evidence for a new type of stellar explosion — an electron-capture supernova has been delivered by an international team

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers discovered the first evidence of the destruction of a collapsed rapidly spinning star—a phenomenon they describe as a “magneto-rotational hypernova”. A

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggests a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New analysis by UChicago astronomer finds agreement with the standard model in ongoing Hubble tension Our universe is expanding, but our two main

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years away, two black holes each gobbled up their neutron star companions, triggering

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The moons of planets that have no parent star can possess an atmosphere and retain liquid water. Astrophysicists at LMU have calculated that

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – It was long believed that hit-and-run collisions with other bodies during the formation of our solar system blew away much of Mercury’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2011, scientists confirmed a suspicion: There was a split in the local cosmos. Samples of the solar wind brought back to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “free-floating” planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A billion years from now, the  Palomar 5 cluster will dissolve as a 100% black hole cluster, but for now, there is

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –  It appears the underground lakes on Mars are no lakes at all, so what are they? As mentioned on MessageToEagle.com, just recently