Astronomers Archives

January 30, 2026 4:04 PM

Intense geomagnetic storm linked to stealth solar eruption, say astronomers

Astronomers have identified a subtle solar eruption known as a Stealth Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) as the cause of an intense geomagnetic storm that impacted Earth in March 2023, highlighting new challenges in forecasting space weather events. The s...

January 19, 2026 10:23 PM

Astronomers spot mysterious ‘iron bar’ in well-known Ring Nebula

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has been studied extensively ever since. But that does not mean we have it all figur...

January 13, 2026 3:48 PM

Astronomers spot white dwarf star creating a colorful shockwave

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave as it moves through space, leaving them searching for an explanation. The highly magnetized white dwarf is gravitationally b...

November 19, 2025 6:45 PM

Century-old Kodaikanal Observatory data offers new insights into the Sun’s magnetic future

Astronomers have tapped into more than a century’s worth of solar observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) to reconstruct the Sun’s past polar magnetic behaviour—paving the way for better predictions of its future activity. Fo...

October 10, 2025 10:40 PM

Astronomers capture first-ever image of two black holes orbiting each other

In a historic breakthrough, astronomers have for the first time captured two black holes locked in orbit around each other - a cosmic dance that has long been theorized but never before seen. The discovery, published in the Astrophysical Journal, co...

September 11, 2025 10:49 AM

Astronomers get best view yet of two merging black holes

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and gravity known to science. Researchers have now gotten their best look yet at such an event based on the detection of ripples...

August 15, 2025 3:18 PM

New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that occurred when a massive star tried to swallow a blac...