Live Breaking News & Updates on Cerro Tololo|Page 13
Stay updated with breaking news from Cerro tololo. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Gemini North Finds Rock-Forming Elements in Exoplanet Atmosphere miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have observed the first evidence of a dying Sun-like star engulfing an exoplanet. The “smoking gun” of this event was seen in a long and low-energy outburst from the star the telltale signature of a planet skimming along a star’s surface. This never-before-seen process may herald the ultimate fate of Earth when our own Sun nears the end of its life in about five billion years. ....
Astronomers using an array of ground- and space-based telescopes, including Gemini North on Hawai‘i, have uncovered a closely bound duo of energetic quasars the hallmark of a pair of merging galaxies seen when the Universe was only three billion years old. This discovery sheds light on the evolution of galaxies at “cosmic noon,” a period in the history of the Universe when galaxies underwent bursts of furious star formation. This merger also represents a system on the verge of becoming a giant elliptical galaxy. ....
The ghostly remains of a supernova first documented by Chinese astronomers 1,800 years ago have been captured in an image by a dark energy-hunting camera located in Chile. ....