While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the ...
Thanks to ESA satellites, an international team including UNIGE researchers has detected a giant eruption coming from a ...
Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that ...
Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are ...
(Nanowerk News) The CHEOPS space telescope, whose scientific operations centre is based at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), is providing new information on the mysterious exoplanet WASP-76b. This ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula.
European astronomers have investigated a recently detected black hole designated Gaia BH3. In their results, they found that the black hole is associated with a nearby disrupted star cluster known ...
Université de Genève. (2024, April 24). Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 1, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 04 ...
Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe. While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it ...
Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe.
(Nanowerk News) While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays - high-energy photons - coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA’s ...