Highlights
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest infrared telescope facility ever sent to space, and is poised to provide a tremendous…
Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the sky. They consist of a…
We think of stars as stable systems and indeed they take millions of years to evolve significantly. However, stable does not mean static. Many stars, from all masses and sizes display pulsations on timescales between…
It is known that low-mass stars end their lives as white dwarfs, while high-mass stars become…
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are the most powerful, persistent objects in the Universe. They emit enormous amount of…
2021 Highlights
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a scientific collaboration bringing together teams of astronomers around the largest European radio…
Super-massive black holes (SMBHs), that is black holes with at least one million times the mass of the Sun, are…
A group of astronomers, including Prof. Iossif Papadakis of the Institute of Astrophysics and the Department of Physics of the University of Crete have recently…
Polarized light emitted by Galactic interstellar dust acts as a veil obscuring our view of microwave emission from the early Universe - the cosmic microwave background (CMB), often called the Big Bang "ashes". An…
A large-scale magnetic field (ranging from a fraction of a μG to hundreds of mG) permeates the…
The models that seek to explain the reflection spectrum in black hole binaries usually invoke a point-like primary source of hard…
2020 Highlights
Large scale structures, such as groups of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters, have long been the workhorses of observational cosmology. Now a new way to observe them promises to provide new insights to one of…
Luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs/ULIRGs) have been an active area of galaxy research since their discovery more than three decades ago. With its vast increase in sensitivity in the infrared, Spitzer…
Strong indications for the existence of a second planet in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, have been recently unveiled by an international team of scientists.
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2019 Highlights
Research conducted by an international team of astronomers, published in the scientific journal Nature, revealed an enormous nebula around an extreme form of a merging galaxy.
The galaxy named Makani (Hawaiian for 'wind') is pushing a…