The Einstein Probe, using its innovative lobster-eye X-ray telescope, has captured an ultra-rare celestial event — a bright X ...

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A blast of X-rays was seen coming from within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by astronomers using artificial intelligence. This incredibly powerful and fleeting ...

Using the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Indian astronomers have ...

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

Astronomers analyzing archived NASA data have stumbled upon a cosmic event unlike anything seen before—a brief but intense ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known as HL Tauri. Results of the observation campaign, presented Feb.

Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a gamma-ray burst, or by something entirely new?

The minor is interdisciplinary and offered jointly by the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. In a broad sense, the aim of physics is to develop ...

Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of ... X-ray spectroscopic observations of the Centaurus galaxy cluster with the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission satellite show that the hot gas ...