Phenylium Ion Strikes Back: Key Aromatic Ring Builder in Space Restored
New experiments show the phenylium cation reacts efficiently with acetylene under interstellar-like conditions, restoring its role in forming the first ...
Tag: Nature Astronomy
Chemists Defend Finding That Phenylium Ions Refuse to React in Space-Like Conditions
A Colorado team has defended its finding that phenylium ions are unreactive toward acetylene, arguing that differing internal energy rather ...
Two Baby Giant Stars Caught in a Cosmic Near Miss Reshape Ideas of How Massive Binaries Form
High-resolution multi-epoch observations of the massive protobinary IRAS 07299−1651 reveal a highly eccentric, near-parabolic orbit with strongly misaligned disks, pointing ...
Black Holes Large and Small Launch Jets at the Same Universal Threshold
A new study finds that black holes from stellar to supermassive scales launch jets at the same universal critical accretion ...
Ancient Meteorites Reveal the Solar System’s First Bodies Were Built From Fire
A Yale-led study uses chemical tracers in iron meteorites to show that the solar system's earliest planetesimals were built from ...
Superbubbles Reveal Supernovae as the Engine of Galactic Turbulence
A combined FAST and Very Large Array survey of Andromeda has catalogued 118 hydrogen superbubbles whose supernova-driven energy injection matches ...
Fast Radio Bursts Reveal Suppressed Clustering of Matter Across the Cosmic Web
Using 114 localized fast radio bursts, astronomers have measured suppressed clustering of cosmic matter caused by galactic feedback, delivering constraints ...
JWST’s Little Red Dots May Be Black Holes Wrapped in Dense Gas, Study Finds
A new Nature Astronomy Perspective argues that JWST's mysterious little red dots are million-solar-mass black holes enshrouded in dense gas, ...
BepiColombo caught Mercury being blasted by a solar storm up close
During a close 2024 flyby, BepiColombo's Finnish-built SIXS instrument measured how solar energetic particles penetrated Mercury's weak magnetosphere and rained ...
Magnetars May Be Born in Half of All Core-Collapse Supernovae
A population synthesis of the youngest Galactic neutron stars finds that magnetars make up about half of all neutron stars ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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