STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

Astronomers Propose New Expression of the Activity-Rotation Relationship

Apr 01, 2019 (SPX)

However, there are still some fundamental issues to be addressed: why is there a sharp turnoff in the relation and what is the implication of this relation for ...

Space Butterfly Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars

Apr 01, 2019 (JPL)

Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them. Inside giant clouds o...

Physicists constrain dark matter

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

The question of what particles make up dark matter is a crucial one for modern particle physics. Despite the expectations that dark matter particles would be di...

Hubble Captures Birth of Giant Storm on Neptune

Mar 26, 2019 (SPX)

Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Neptune's Great Dark Spots are storms that form from areas of high atmospheric pressure. In contrast, storms on Earth form around...

Simulating nature's cosmic laboratory, one helium droplet at a time

Mar 26, 2019 (SPX)

Their method promises accurate measurements of reaction energies that can be used to understand chemical reactions under space conditions - including those reac...

Another milestone toward radio telescope construction in South Africa

Mar 26, 2019 (SPX)

The IEMP is the environmental management instrument for SKA1_MID (and an exclusion for requiring environmental authorisation in terms of NEMA), and is the first...

Galactic center visualization delivers star power

Mar 22, 2019 (SPX)

By combining NASA Ames supercomputer simulations with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this visualization provides a new perspective of what is happe...

Webb Telescope to explore galaxies from cosmic dawn to present day

Mar 22, 2019 (SPX)

- How did the first galaxies in the universe form, and did they make the universe transparent to light? - How did later galaxies produce and disperse into the u...

Ultra-sharp images make old stars look absolutely marvelous

Mar 22, 2019 (SPX)

"Ultra-sharp adaptive optics images from the Gemini Observatory allowed us to determine the ages of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy," said Leandro Kerber...

Giant X-ray 'Chimneys' Exhaust Energy Produced in the Galactic Center

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

Now, an international team of astronomers has discovered two exhaust channels - dubbed "galactic center chimneys" - that appear to funnel matter and energy away...

Heading towards a tsunami of light

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

"This source of radiation lets us look at reality through a new angle - it is like twisting a mirror and discovering something completely different," says Illia...

The rise and fall of Ziggy star formation and the rich dust from ancient stars

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers now think MACS0416_Y1 experienced staggered star formation with two intense starburst periods 300 million and 600 million years after the Big Bang w...

NASA's Fermi satellite clocks 'cannonball' pulsar speeding through space

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Pulsars are superdense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes. This one, dubbed PSR J0002+6216 (J0002 for short), sports a rad...

ALMA witnesses the birth of a massive binary star

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

While it is known that most massive stars possess orbiting stellar companions it has been unclear how this comes about. Are the stars born together from a commo...

Mapping stars with PEPSI

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

A special technique allows astronomers to resolve the surfaces of faraway stars. Those are otherwise only seen as point sources, even in the largest telescopes ...

Levitating objects with light

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Though still theoretical, the work is a step toward developing a spacecraft that could reach the nearest planet outside of our solar system in 20 years, powered...

Hidden phase of matter created by a burst of light makes for Supercrystal

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

This is one of the first examples of a new state of matter with long-term stability transfigured by the energy from a sub-pico-second laser pulse. The team's go...

A Cosmic Bat in Flight

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

This bat-shaped reflection nebula doesn't emit light - instead it is illuminated by a cluster of young stars in its core, only dimly visible through the clouds ...

Energy Loss Gives Insights into Evolution of Quasar Jets

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Supermassive black holes, many millions of times more massive than our Sun, reside in the central regions of galaxies. They grow even larger by attracting and c...

Witnessing the birth of a massive binary star system

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

While it is known that most massive stars possess orbiting stellar companions it has been unclear how this comes about - for example, are the stars born togethe...