As study co-author Dr. Emily Rickman, an ESA astronomer and Science Operations Scientist at the STScI, told Universe Today via email: "UV astronomy provides us insight into highly energetic events ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

My research interests lie in theoretical astrophysics and UV/X-ray space astronomy. I work on theories of galaxy formation, reionization, first stars, primordial metal production, and numerical ...

In the past five years, the France research group has carried out observational and theoretical studies of stars and exoplanets while developing new hardware for future NASA UV/optical space ...