STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

Anaemic star carries the mark of its ancient ancestor

Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)

In a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, researchers led by Dr. Thomas Nordlander of the ARC Centre of Ex...

Mechanism for gamma-ray bursts from space is decoded

Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)

Since their discovery the bursts have been at the focus of attention with several dedicated satellites launched to explore their origin. In the late nineties it...

Scientists detail mechanism behind gamma-ray bursts

Aug 01, 2019 (UPI)

The first gamma-ray bursts were observed by the Vela satellites, a constellation of space-based satellites designed to monitor nuclear testing and ensure the So...

NASA's new lightweight x-ray mirrors ready for try-outs in space

Jul 30, 2019 (SPX)

As a result, the X-ray mirror technology being developed by Will Zhang and his team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been basel...

Developing technologies that run on light

Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)

All he had to do was design smaller-than-microscopic structures and break a fundamental symmetry of physics. "Diodes are ubiquitous in modern electronics, from ...

NASA Delivers Hardware for ESA Dark Energy Mission

Jul 24, 2019 (JPL)

Based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the engineers designed, fabricate...

First Calculations of Magnetic Activity in Hot Jupiters

Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)

The team, led by Wilson Cauley of the University of Colorado, also includes associate professor Evgenya Shkolnik of Arizona State University's School of Earth a...

Astronomers Map Vast Void in Our Cosmic Neighborhood

Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)

The universe is a tapestry of galaxy congregations and vast voids. In a new study being reported in the Astrophysical Journal, Brent Tully's team applies the sa...

The early days of the Milky Way revealed

Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)

Exact measurements of position, brightness and distance for around a million stars of our galaxy within 6,500 light years of the sun, obtained with the Gaia spa...

NASA's Webb Telescope Shines with American Ingenuity

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

Similarly, the task of building the world's most complex and powerful space telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has required steadfast contribution fro...

Coupled exploration of light and matter

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

The creation process is followed by a period during which the dynamics of the system can be described as that of a particle-like entity that is neither light no...

Scientists Piece Together Largest US-Based Dark Matter Experiment

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

When complete, LZ will be the largest, most sensitive U.S.-based experiment yet that is designed to directly detect dark matter particles. Scientists around the...

Gaia's biggest operation since launch

Jul 17, 2019 (ESA)

Gaia is on a mission to survey more than a billion stars, charting the largest three-dimensional map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In so doing, the spacecraft i...

Gaia starts mapping our galaxy's bar

Jul 17, 2019 (ESA)

The second release of data from ESA's Gaia star-mapping satellite, published in 2018, has been revolutionising many fields of astronomy. The unprecedented catal...

eROSITA Launch Heralds New Era for X-ray Astronomy

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

In orbit around this equilibrium point, eROSITA will embark upon the largest ever survey of the hot Universe. The space telescope will use its seven X-ray detec...

IceCube Antarctic Neutrino Detector to Get $37M Upgrade

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

This month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) approved $23 million in funding to expand the detector and its scientific capabilities. Seven new strings of o...

Spectrum X-Gamma Rockets into Space with X-ray Vision

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

The Spectrum X-Gamma spacecraft blasted off successfully at 8:31 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Its destination is a special gravitational...

Russia launches space telescope

Jul 13, 2019 (AFP)

Video posted on the website of the Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, showed a Proton-M rocket carrying the Spektr-RG taking off from the launch pad at Baikon...

Interstellar iron isn't missing, it's just hiding in plain sight

Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)

Iron in interstellar environments should also be common, but astrophysicists detect only low levels of the gaseous kind. This implies that the missing iron exis...

Star formation may be halted by cold ionized hydrogen

Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)

Dr. Raymond Oonk (ASTRON/Leiden Observatory/SURFsara) led this study which is published in MNRAS. He said: "The possible existence of cold ionised gas had been ...