STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

Massive Stars Grow Same Way as Light Stars, Just Bigger

Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)

A protostar, a baby star still in the process of forming, is fed by a surrounding disk of gas falling towards the center. The details of the process, such as wh...

Russian engineers ready to 'light up' a lamp revolution

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

While LED lamps have become commonplace, they are not the only clean and power-saving alternative to incandescent lamps. Since the 1980s, engineers around the w...

Scientists weigh the balance of matter in galaxy clusters

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

The results are the first to use observational data to measure this balance, which was theorized 20 years ago, and will yield fresh insight into the relationshi...

Radio telescope ALMA finds earliest example of merging galaxies

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

This is the earliest galaxy where this useful combination of three signals has been detected. By comparing the different signals, the team determined that the g...

Spiraling Filaments Feed Young Galaxies

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

"For the first time, we are seeing filaments of gas directly spiral into a galaxy. It's like a pipeline going straight in," says Christopher Martin, a professor...

Tracking down dark matter

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

According to the current theory, as much as 80 percent may be dark matter. This claim is based on several observations, one of which is that stars and galaxies ...

Hubble Captures Galaxy's Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show

Jul 05, 2019 (SPX)

The celestial outburst takes the shape of a pair of ballooning lobes of dust and gas and other filaments that were blown out from the petulant star. The star ma...

Relationship found between ordinary, dark matter in galaxy clusters

Jul 02, 2019 (UPI)

Researchers used a combination of complex statistical models and algorithms to analyze data collected by the Local Cluster Substructure Survey and tease out rel...

Hubble, Spitzer telescopes conduct chemical survey of mid-size exoplanet

Jul 02, 2019 (UPI)

In size, mass and composition, Gliese 3470 b is like a cross between Earth and Neptune -- a rocky core surrounded by a thick layer of gas. The exoplanet weighs ...

Lightning bolt underwater

Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)

In a first, they deployed optical spectroscopy and modelling to analyse such underwater plasmas in detail, which exist only for a few nanoseconds, and to theore...

Discovered: A new property of light

Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)

In addition to many well-known properties like intensity and wavelength, light can be twisted, possessing what's known as angular momentum, something researcher...

Hubble finds tiny electric soccer balls in space, helps solve interstellar mystery

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

Since stars and planets form from collapsing clouds of gas and dust in space, "The diffuse ISM can be considered as the starting point for the chemical processe...

NASA's Webb Telescope Tech Improves Patients' Vision

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

As a space telescope, Webb will use a large primary mirror to gather infrared light, direct it to its scientific instruments that analyze the light, and then se...

Astronomers Make History in a Split Second

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery was made with CSIRO's new Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in Western Australia. The galaxy from which the bur...

Cosmic cat and mouse: Astronomers capture and tag a fleeting radio burst

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

The critical Gemini observations were key to verifying that the burst left its host galaxy some 4 billion years ago. Since the first FRB discovery in 2007, thes...

Old hearts might be solution to red giants' age paradox

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

Four years ago, several red giant stars were discovered to pose a paradox: even though they are built from very old stellar material, their large masses indicat...

Cosmic waves discovery could unlock mysteries of intergalactic space

Jun 27, 2019 (AFP)

An Australian-led team of international astronomers have determined for the first time the precise source of a powerful, one-off burst of cosmic radio waves. Th...

Astronomers find a pair of galaxy clusters about to collide

Jun 25, 2019 (UPI)

Galaxy clusters are the largest cosmic structures organized by gravity. These three-dimensional webs of galaxies, numbering in the thousands, contain billions a...

Study links lightning with gamma rays inside clouds

Jun 25, 2019 (UPI)

Over the last several years, researchers at the University of Tokyo worked with schools and businesses in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in central Japan, to in...

Traces of Gold in Early Universe

Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)

Their search is taking them from the creation of the universe to today. Cote will speak about the team's research at the Canadian Astronomical Society 2019 meet...