A snapshot from the heart of our galaxy
Versão Portuguesa 🇵🇹 You might have heard that at the very center of the Milky Way, a giant black hole lurks around. And a few days ago, a team of astronomers released the very first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. It is the very…
A cosmic duet
Versão Portuguesa 🇵🇹 Scientists have just captured a new image of a beautiful “dance” between two galaxies: the spiral NGC 1512 (the largest in the picture) and its small neighbour NGC 1510. They are located in the direction of constellation Horologium (The Clock) some 60 million light-years from us, on Earth’s…
Artificial brain helps “see” plasma moving on the Sun
Versão Portuguesa 🇵🇹 The study of the Sun has many challenges. While it is relatively easy to observe its temperature and the movement of solar plasma boiling up and down on the solar surface, it is quite hard to spot how this same plasma moves from side to side. Given…
