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    Unprecedented look into ‘Central Engine’ powering a Solar Flare

    July 28, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Researchers provide an unprecedented look inside the “central engine” of a large solar flare, a site were dramatic bursts of energy are released, and particles are accelerated to relativistic energies. (Photo: NJIT-CSTR, B. Chen, S. Yu; NASA SDO)

    In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the “central engine” of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept. 10, 2017 by the Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) — a solar radio telescope facility operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR).

    The new findings, based on EOVSA’s observations of the event at microwave wavelengths, offer the first measurements characterizing t...

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    New approach refines the Hubble’s Constant and Age of Universe

    July 27, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Galaxy NGC4414
    A galaxy known as NGC4414, 62.3 million light years from Earth, was one of 50 galaxies used to recalculate the Hubble constant.

    Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble’s constant, a research team led by a University of Oregon astronomer estimates the age of the universe at 12.6 billion years.

    Approaches to date the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe, rely on mathematics and computational modeling, using distance estimates of the oldest stars, the behavior of galaxies and the rate of the universe’s expansion. The idea is to compute how long it would take all objects to return to the beginning.

    A key calculation for dating is the Hubble’s constant, named after Edwin Hubble who first calculated the universe’s expansion rate in 1929...

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    Hubble sees Summertime on Saturn

    July 25, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn on July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn’s icy moons are clearly visible in this exposure: Mimas at right, and Enceladus at bottom. This image is taken as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project. OPAL is helping scientists understand the atmospheric dynamics and evolution of our solar system’s gas giant planets. In Saturn’s case, astronomers continue tracking shifting weather patterns and storms.
    Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team

    Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth...

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    First ever image of a Multi-planet system around a Sun-like Star captured by ESO telescope

    July 24, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun. The observations can help astronomers understand how planets formed and evolved around our own Sun.

    The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and – until now – astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun...

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