Category: Astronomy

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of astronomers has spotted a  strange, giant planet orbiting at a large distance around a sun-like star. Why this planet

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A solar probe surprised U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists by seeing through the planet’s clouds. Venus, sometimes called Earth’s “evil twin” since

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These stars

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable ‘biosignature,’ but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Based on data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter that arrived late Friday night, NASA has chosen to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers used data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station and discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The International LOFAR Telescope – a network of radio telescopes across Europe – has taken its first ‘pictures’, revealing a black hole

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like a single object in ground-based

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The behavior of clouds and precipitation on planets beyond Earth is poorly understood. However, understanding clouds and precipitation is important for predicting

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astrophysicists at the Universities of Göttingen and Auckland simulate microscopic clusters from the Big Bang The very first moments of the Universe

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers expect that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will find thousands of planets using two different techniques as it surveys a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –Enceladus, a tiny frozen ball about 500 kilometers in diameter (about 1/7th the diameter of Earth’s moon), is the sixth largest moon of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Within the solar system, X‐ray emissions have been detected from every planet except the Ice Giants: Uranus and Neptune. Now, astronomers have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Monash University have uncovered a black hole approximately 55,000 times the mass of the sun,

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG, astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers are now in a better position to interpret observations of supernova remnants thanks to computer simulations of these cataclysmic events by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has revealed a new view of the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Abell 78 is not only an unusual but also a very beautiful planetary nebula, located around 5,000 light-years away in the constellation

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of astronomers has

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – One of the most profound discoveries in planetary science over the past 25 years is that worlds with oceans beneath layers of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2017, the first interstellar object from beyond our solar system was discovered via the Pan-STARRS astronomical observatory in Hawaii. It was

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers focus on a mysteriously long, thin cloud that again has appeared over the 20-km high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. When spring

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Now, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have identified a supermassive black hole in motion.  Black holes can

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – By using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles coming from a supermassive black hole