Tag: astrophysics
Can gravity explain the accelerated expansion of the universe? – Knowledge
The universe is expanding faster and faster, but what is driving this frenzy is a mystery to physicists. Theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explains why the solution could lie in…
Physics: In Search of the Invisible
The universe appears to be full of dark matter, but what it is made of remains a mystery. Can a new experiment clarify what the invisible mass is all about?…
Munich: Astrophysicist Jana Steuer – Munich
A nine-year-old girl sits in the lecture hall of the Munich Public Observatory. It’s about nuclear fission, radioactivity and dark matter. And about the women in the history of astrophysics…
Solar rotation mystery solved? – Astronomers discover the drive for the differential rotation of the solar plasma
Quiz solved? The sun rotates faster at its equator than at the poles – and this difference is larger than it should be. But why? Astronomers may now have found…
Nube Galaxy: Puzzles about galaxies without stars – Does astrophysics need to rethink? – Knowledge
In a thoroughly ordinary galaxy like the Milky Way, more than 100 billion stars shine. That’s a number with eleven zeros – but only a few thousand of them can…
Astronomy: How to discover the green comet 12P Pons-Brooks
“12P Pons-Brooks” can currently be seen over Germany and can even be seen with the naked eye. If you want to discover it in the sky, you have to keep…
Space record: Researchers discover what is probably the brightest spot in the universe – knowledge
Astrophysicists long thought the object was a star, but it is now clear: it is a black hole that devours the mass of a sun every day – and shines…
Space: Researchers discover what is probably the brightest spot in the universe
Astrophysicists long thought the object was a star, but it is now clear: it is a black hole that devours the mass of a sun every day – and shines…
Astronomy: "Maybe cosmologists can relax a little now"
The “eROSITA” X-ray telescope has mapped more cosmic energy sources than any other instrument before. The data is now helping to settle a scientific dispute. So far, the German researchers…
Astrophysics: Is it possible that aliens have already visited Earth?
And when will it be possible to create life in the laboratory? Questions for Nobel Prize winner in physics Didier Queloz about the beginning of everything. source site