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Strange giant planet TOI-1355 b set to vanish from view in 2033

Since their first discovery in 1995, hot Jupiter exoplanets (hot Jupiters, for short) quickly challenged our understanding of exoplanet formation and evolution, including exoplanetary system architecture. This is because, as their name implies, they orbit at extremely close distances to their host stars, ranging from a few days to a few hours. Some of their orbits are even oval-shaped, called eccentric in the scientific community, meaning their orbit is oval-shaped. But could such an orbit cause a hot Jupiter to completely vanish from view, preventing astronomers from studying it? from Universe Today https://ift.tt/2i0qTn3 via IFTTT
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The Rate of Starbirth is Crashing in the "Modern" Universe

The Universe has been making fewer stars lately and astronomers want to know why. The obvious answer is: there hasn't been enough starbirth material. But, is that true? Is some other process at play? An international team led by researcher Hong Guo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences decided to dig into the reasons why it looks like starbirth is falling off. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/CtHScrY via IFTTT
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Measuring the Distance Between Quasar Pairs Just Got Easier

A new way to accurately measure the distance between quasar pairs is showing promise through University of Alberta research. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/VfcMK0N via IFTTT
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A New Test Looks For A Subtle Twist In Ancient Light

The standard model of cosmology predicts that the Universe is homogeneous. A new study tests this using the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and finds this isn't quite true. This study supports an earlier study which also found a small polarization bias. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/vrCB6aY via IFTTT
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Direct neutral gas found in galaxies 700M yrs post-Big Bang

Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang is hypothesized to have occurred, kickstarting our universe and eventually life on our small, blue world. While the Big Bang has yet to be directly observed, scientists have worked tirelessly to piece together the events that happened immediately after the Big Bang, specifically the first billion years or less, with the goal of gaining insight into the how the first stars, and potentially planets, formed and evolved. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/CJLkhbY via IFTTT
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Diving into an Out-of-sync Galaxy

Galaxies are like snowflakes, no two exactly alike, even the spirals. The Hubble Space Telescope did a visual dive into the distant spiral NGC 4693 and found some intriguing hints to its past. For one thing, this member of the Virgo Cluster seems to have a central region that's rotating out of sync with the spiral arms and bulge. Those arms don't seem to connect to the central region, and the bulge itself seems to extend out above the plane of the galaxy. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/OFWwhjB via IFTTT
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SpaceX's Starship Rocket Does Its Job During First Orbital Flight

SpaceX sent its Starship super-rocket on its first orbital flight — a shorter-than-planned test mission that put operational Starlink satellites into orbit for the first time. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/1pGJmCS via IFTTT
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