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The Sky This Week from April 19 to 28

Friday, April 19th 2019 02:02 PM

Friday, April 19Full Moon arrived at 7:12 a.m. EDT this morning, but it still looks completely illuminated tonight. It rises in the east about a half-hour after sunset and climbs well above the southeastern horizon by late evening. The Moon spends the evening in the northwestern corner of the constellation Libra the Scales.Saturday, April 20Venus pokes above the eastern horizon about an hour bef...

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Nearby asteroids reveal sizes of distant stars

Thursday, April 18th 2019 10:33 AM

Stars in the night sky appear as tiny points of light because they are too far away for your eyes to resolve. But even through powerful telescopes, stars still appear as mere points because they are too small to see their true physical size at vast distances. Now, a group of astronomers from over 20 different institutions has found a way to combine a unique telescope array with passing asteroids...

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Third planet found hiding in ‘Tatooine’ star system

Wednesday, April 17th 2019 12:01 PM

Like the planet Tatooine from Star Wars, two suns — one bright, one dim and red— rise over the horizon of Kepler 47d. But unlike dry and sandy Tatooine, this planet’s surface is gassy and indistinct. The system also holds two smaller planets; one planet closer to the double suns, and one farther out. Both lack a solid surface. If you visited in a spaceship, al...

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A new neutron star merger is caught on X-ray camera

Friday, April 19th 2019 02:22 PM

In October 2017, astronomers announced the first detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars earlier that year. The event also rung in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, as more than 70 telescopes observed the event’s afterglow in optical light, X-rays, gamma rays, and more. Now, an X-ray signal dubbed XT2 from a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away has revealed...

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Boost in the number of US female physicists and astronomers taking faculty positions

Thursday, April 18th 2019 10:34 AM

Around 40% of new astronomy faculty in US universities are women, while a quarter of new physics faculty recruits are female. That is according to data from a recent report by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), which also finds an increase in female representation at postgraduate levels as well as a boost in the proportion of Hispanic women taking physics. The report&nbs...

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Astronomers Find Universe’s First Molecule

Wednesday, April 17th 2019 12:02 PM

A team of astronomers and a high-flying observatory have finally found the helium hydride ion— the first molecule to come together in the cosmos — in interstellar space. “The unambiguous detection reported here brings a decades-long search to a happy ending at last,” write Rolf Güsten (Max-Planck Institue for Radio Astronomy, Germany) and colleagues in the April 18th&...

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