NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have been utilized by the astronomers to accurately measure the rotation rate of a galaxy for the first time, based on the clock-like movement of its stars. The study showed that the central part of the neighboring galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), finishes a rotation every 250 million years, same as the time taken by our sun to complete a rotation … [Read more...]
Supernova observation revealed Dust to Dirt Details
Supernovae are thought to be a key source of the dust surrounding our galaxy mainly in the early universe. The dust source information was confirmed from the new views from a giant radio telescope in Chile. The discovery was made while observing supernova 1987A through the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile. It’s an exploded star in the Large Magellanic … [Read more...]
