This galaxy resembles a bull’s eye, which is appropriate because its appearance is partly due to a smaller galaxy that passed through the middle of this object. The violent collision produced shock waves that swept through the galaxy and triggered large amounts Read More …
A new project using sonification turns astronomical images from Chandra and other telescopes into sound. This allows users to “listen” to the center of the Milky Way as observed in X-ray, optical, and infrared light. As the cursor moves across Read More …
The XMM-Newton X-ray observatory of the European Space Agency is celebrating the 21st anniversary of its launch into space with the publication of a new data catalogue, the 4XMM-DR10, a compilation of nearly 850,000 X-ray detections found in more than Read More …
Astronomers have found evidence for an unusual type of supernova near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This composite image below contains data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) and the NSF’s Very Large Array (red) of the supernova Read More …
The Language Resource Center (Centre de Ressources en Langues, FSI, UT3) in collaboration with the UPS in Space, the astronomy club of Toulouse III- Paul Sabatier University, are organizing a talk by Dr. Natalie Webb (IRAP), astrophysicist and English native Read More …
The Jellyfish Nebula (officially known as IC 443) is a supernova remnant about 5,000 light years from Earth. Astronomers have been looking for the spinning neutron star, or pulsar, from the explosion that created the remnant. New Chandra observations have Read More …
This new study helps reveal what happens to supermassive black holes when three galaxies merge together. This result, which used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, tells astronomers more about how galaxies and the giant black Read More …
A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating compact star (usually neutron stars but also white dwarfs) that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing Read More …
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar. New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory help support the idea that it is also a pulsar, meaning it emits Read More …
Using data from the eROSITA X-ray telescope aboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory, astronomers have detected a previously unknown supercluster of galaxies. The newly found structure consists of eight galaxy clusters. A supercluster is a large group of smaller galaxy clusters Read More …
The X-ray XMM-Newton space telescope in October 12th, 2021 completed its 4000th orbit around the Earth with a billion kilometers travelled so far! XMM-Newton is an European Space Agency X-ray satellite launched in December 10th of 1999. The mission was Read More …
The latest #AHEAD2020 movie 🎥 entitled “AHEAD2020: Unveiling the Invisible Universe” won the first prize in the “Best Full-dome” category in the 20th Baikal international film festival (8-12/09/2021, https://en.baikalkinofest.ru/). The movie was already played in about 40 planetaria around the Read More …
The AHEAD2020 main goal is to integrate and open research infrastructures for high energy and multi-messenger astrophysics. We offer a wide program of transnational access (TNA) to the best European test and calibration facilities and access free of cost to Read More …
Astronomers have measured motions within a remarkable cosmic structure for the first time using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The data show a blast wave and debris from an exploded star moving away from the explosion site and colliding with a Read More …
Astrophysicists have used computer simulations to show that in deep in space, tsunami-like structures may form on much bigger scales than here on Earth, from gas escaping the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole. In fact, the mysterious environment Read More …
IAU Symposium 363: Neutron Star Astrophysics at the Crossroads: Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution — 1st Announcement! The 363st International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium will be held remotely, November 29th – December 3rd 2021. Neutron stars are the strongest magnets Read More …
Published on Nature Communications the work led by Samuele Ronchini, PhD student at GSSI and INFN associate, together with INAF, which sheds new light on cooling processes happening in jets of Gamma-Ray Bursts. What are the processes that determine the Read More …
After the discovery of quasars (QSO), in the mid-1960s the X-ray astronomy started and was important to understand better the nature and the properties of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), as the X-ray emission seemed to occur in the majority Read More …
A new panorama from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope provides a stunning view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It also reveals threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields, which are weaving a tapestry Read More …
The Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics) mission is the second long-range space mission (L2) of the long term program “Cosmic Vision” of the European Space Agency (ESA). This mission is dedicated to the scientific theme “The hot and Read More …
