Astronomers sometimes talk about the universe as a series of puzzles that arrive one pixel at a time, and few images capture that better than a single, unresolved red speck at the edge of a ...
"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...
A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...
The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...
A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...
"The James Webb Space Telescope has opened a new frontier in extragalactic astrophysics, revealing objects we didn't even suspect existed, and we're only at the beginning of this adventure." Using the ...
The hope is that upcoming facilities such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will provide higher-resolution data to test these ideas further. Co-investigator Professor Bob Bingham ...