Astronomers just discovered the smallest star ever
A team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge was on the lookout for new exoplanets when they came across an exciting accidental discovery: They found the smallest star measured to this day....
An oddball planet has astronomers scratching their heads
HIP 65426 is … weird. The star rotates at clip 150 times the rotation rate of the Sun, and despite a young age (14 million years), it has no debris disk. Oh, and it has an oddball gas giant sitting...
Congress Wants a New U.S. Military Branch, a ‘Space Corps’
Late last month, the House Armed Services Committee approved a version of the annual U.S. military budget that includes something far from routine—the creation of a new military branch devoted...
Astronomers Directly Image Super-Jupiter around HIP 65426
The new world, dubbed HIP 65426b, is about 6 to 12 times more massive than Jupiter and has a radius of approximately 1.5 Jupiter radii. As a giant planet larger than Jupiter, it’s classified as a...
Astronomy exhibition
An astronomy exhibition comprising of fun-filled activities was organised by students of astronomy club of Classes VII, VIII and IX at Sachdeva Public School, Rohini, on April 22. A plethora of...
Brown dwarfs are as plentiful as stars
It seems that for every star that ignites, there may be a failed star. A recent study by international researchers, including scientists at York University, found that the Milky Way may be home to...
Astronomers find two classes of gas giant planets
According to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers have found 3,498 confirmed exoplanets as of June 29, 2017. Of those planets, 679 have measured masses, and 281 have masses greater than 300 times...
YOUR CONNECTED DEVICES ARE SCREWING UP ASTRONOMY
By now, “Here Are Some Stupid Things on the Internet of Things” has become a full-on article genre. There’s even a Tumblr dedicated to the idea: “We Put a Chip in It,” it’s called. In some visions...
