Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b – often compared to the fictional “Vulcan” in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech New research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit around 40 Eridani A, attributing the detected signals to the surface activity of the star. A planet believed … Read more
Artist’s impression of the binary system VTFS 243. Credit: ESOL. Calçada CC BY 4.0 Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen are helping to explain a mysterious phenomenon in which stars suddenly disappear from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system led to strong evidence that massive stars can completely collapse into … Read more
After two decades of work, the camera at the heart of the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory arrived home last week. It is now perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile. This camera is the last major part of Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope, on which it will be installed after several months of … Read more