Italian astronomers report the detection of a new X-ray binary (XRB), which has received the designation 4XMM J181330.1-17511 ...

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research ...

Previous flares observed from the distant galaxy consisted of a few gamma rays per minute hitting the team's detector over several days. Another member of the team, John Finley, assistant professor of ...

Aug. 5, 2024 — A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far ... it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from ...

Launched on September 2, 2023, by the ISRO PSLV C-57 rocket, Aditya-L1 reached its orbit around the first Earth-Sun Lagrange Point (L1) on January 6, 2024. This point, 1.5 million ...

Aditya-L1’s SUIT detects a solar flare kernel in near-UV for the first Observations confirm energy transfer across different ...

Wolf 359, a red dwarf star just 7.8 light-years away, could host planets, but extreme X-ray and ultraviolet radiation make habitability difficult. Only planets far from the star, with thick greenhouse ...

These flares are some of the most explosive events in the cosmos, releasing a huge amount of gamma rays in a very short time. If XRT 200515 is an X-ray counterpart to such an event, it would be ...

And this the first time scientists could track the X-ray light coming from such a curious pair from its initial sudden flare-up to its fading away. On 27 May 2024, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope ...