STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

UA benefits from superstar astronmer's 'failed retirement'

Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)

Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. first joined the UA Steward Observatory as an associate professor 30 years ago. In 2008, he was lured to the University of Cambridge, wh...

MaNGA data release includes maps of thousands of nearby galaxies

Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)

MaNGA uses a technique called resolved spectroscopy to study galaxies in much greater detail than previous surveys. Spectroscopy is a powerful tool for astronom...

Plasmonic pioneers fire away in fight over light

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

In a new paper in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters, Rice chemist Stephan Link and graduate student Yi-Yu Cai make a case that photoluminescenc...

Pan-STARRS Survey Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

This second release contains over 1.6 petabytes [1] of data, making it the largest volume of astronomical information ever released. The amount of imaging data ...

Manipulating cell networks with light

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

This system has potential applications as a tool for the reconstruction of lost nerve pathways, constructing artificial neural networks, and food resources deve...

Speed of light: Toward a future quantum internet

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

A quantum Internet is the 'Holy Grail' of quantum information processing, enabling many novel applications including information-theoretic secure communication....

This Galaxy Is No Match for a Hungry Cluster

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

It's a story as old as the universe itself: A galaxy is born, brimming with new stars, its spiral arms stretching and curving. But then it runs into trouble, ve...

Hubble sees plunging galaxy losing its gas

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

"This galaxy stands out as a particularly extreme example of processes common in massive clusters, where a galaxy goes from being a healthy spiral full of star ...

Making the Hubble's deepest images even deeper

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

After improving the process of combining several images the group was able to recover a large quantity of light from the outer zones of the largest galaxies in ...

As Clouds Fall Apart, A New Star Is Born

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

Stars are born when giant clouds of gas and dust collapse. Whenever one of the collapsing regions becomes hot and dense enough for nuclear fusion to set in, a s...

Stellar winds, the source material for the universe, are clumpy

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

"Stellar winds are the fast-flowing material - composed of protons, electrons, and metal atoms - ejected from stars," said Pragati Pradhan, a postdoctoral resea...

New detector fails to confirm would-be evidence of dark matter

Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)

Dark matter is believed to constitute approximately 27% of the known universe, with ordinary matter accounting for only 4%. The remaining 69% is thought to be m...

China revises regulation to better protect world's largest telescope

Jan 23, 2019 (XNA)

The blanket ban is enforced on radio equipment and electromagnetic gadgets, including tablets, speakers and drones, in the core silence zone of the Five-hundred...

Milky Way's neighbors pick up the pace

Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)

Named for explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who led the first European expedition to circumnavigate the globe, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the Milky Wa...

Last Breath of a Dying Star

Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)

ESO's Very Large Telescope captured this shell of glowing ionised gas - the last breath of the dying star whose simmering remains are visible at the heart of th...

How Hot Are Atoms in the Shock Wave of an Exploding Star?

Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)

The research team analyzed long-term observations of the nearby supernova remnant SN 1987A using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and created a model describing...

Broadband achromatic metalens focuses light regardless of polarization

Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers believed that symmetric nanostructures such as circular pillars were essential building blocks to develop photonic devices that are not sensitive to...

Lifting the Veil on the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy

Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)

So far, a foggy cloud of hot gas has prevented us from making sharp images of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* and causing doubt on its true nature. Astronome...

Classic double-slit experiment in a new light

Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)

This new variant offers a deeper understanding of the electronic structure of solids. Writing in Science Advances, the research group have now presented their r...

Nearby supernova with jet cocoon provides insights on gamma-ray bursts

Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)

While the connection between GRBs and hypernovae has been well established, it is still unclear why some hypernovae do not have associated GRBs. Through the det...