STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

"It is very exciting to see the project that many of us have been working on for so many years finally taking shape in the tunnel," ALPS-II spokesman Axel Linde...

A flash and a shudder may reveal inner workings of stars

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

Astrophysicists have predicted these flashes in theory and in models for 50 years, but none has ever been observed. However, a new study in Nature Astronomy Let...

Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and Technische Un...

Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universe

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

A decades-old mystery: where are the most energetic particles coming from? A major open question in astrophysics for the past fifty years has been the origin of...

Hubble captures galaxies' ghostly gaze

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

But this is no ghostly apparition. Hubble is looking at a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies. Each "eye" is the bright core of a galaxy, one of whic...

DESI opens its 5,000 eyes to capture the colors of the cosmos

Oct 29, 2019 (SPX)

DESI's components are designed to automatically point at preselected sets of galaxies, gather their light, and then split that light into narrow bands of color ...

New research on giant radio galaxies defies conventional wisdom

Oct 28, 2019 (SPX)

Astrophysicists at the University of Kent simulated the development of the biggest objects in the universe to help explain how galaxies and other cosmic bodies ...

Placing another piece in the dark matter puzzle

Oct 28, 2019 (SPX)

Very little is known about the exact nature of dark matter. Currently, some of the most promising dark matter candidates are extremely light bosonic particles s...

eRosita promise a breakthrough in our understanding of the energetic universe

Oct 28, 2019 (SPX)

"Now we can start reaping the fruits of more than ten years of work. We are all impressed by the beautiful first images from our telescope," enthuses Peter Pred...

Chandra spots a mega-cluster of galaxies in the making

Oct 25, 2019 (SPX)

Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the cosmos that are held together by gravity. Clusters consist of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies embedded ...

Fresh strontium, an ingredient in fireworks, produced by neutron star merger

Oct 24, 2019 (UPI)

The element, strontium, was found in the spectra emanating from the neutron star merger GW170817. Scientists detailed the discovery in a paper published Wednesd...

Chinese scientists' pursuit of cosmic rays opens windows on universe

Oct 24, 2019 (XNA)

Huge rocks left from the Ice Age have been blasted. Different detectors are being installed to form a huge "net" to catch the particles generated by cosmic rays...

First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision

Oct 24, 2019 (SPX)

In 2017, following the detection of gravitational waves passing the Earth, ESO pointed its telescopes in Chile, including the VLT, to the source: a neutron star...

NASA demos new star-watching technology with thousands of tiny shutters

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

The technology, called the Next-Generation Microshutter Array (NGMSA), will fly for the first time on the Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imagi...

Webb Telescope clears critical sunshield deployment testing

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

"This was the first time that the sunshield has been deployed and tensioned by the spacecraft electronics and with the telescope present above it. The deploymen...

Arecibo Observatory's computing power to be enhanced

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

UCF manages the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory (AO), home to one of the most powerful and sensitive radio telescopes in the world with a uniq...

South Africa's HIRAX telescope driving industry engagements

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

The fibreglass dish was designed and manufactured by MMS Technology in Pretoria, and the aluminium dish was designed and manufactured through a partnership betw...

Super spirals spin super fast

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

Super spirals are exceptional in almost every way. In addition to being much more massive than the Milky Way, they're also brighter and larger in physical size....

Physicists develop fast and sensitive mechanical tool to measure light

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

The technology out of the Aleman Lab, known as a "graphene nanomechanical bolometer," leverages a new method and an ultrathin material, and could have wide-spre...

Ancient stars shed light on Earth's similarities to other planets

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

"We have just raised the probability that many rocky planets are like the Earth, and there's a very large number of rocky planets in the universe," said co-auth...