STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

AI boosts accuracy in stellar classification efforts

Mar 25, 2025 (SPX)

Central to the research is the StarWhisper LightCurve series, a set of three AI-powered models developed to process and classify variable stars from light curve...

FSU researchers part of TESSERACT's hunt for dark matter

Mar 25, 2025 (SPX)

Historically, most dark matter searches have hunted for two kinds of dark matter: ultra-light axions and heavier WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). B...

Cosmic megajets reveal possible future threat to Earth

Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)

Astronomers led by CHRIST University in Bangalore have identified an enormous spiral galaxy, located nearly one billion light-years from our planet, housing a s...

Fresh satellite data reveals spectacular space discoveries

Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)

The newly released dataset, which represents less than 0.5 percent of Euclid's intended sky coverage, has already enabled numerous breakthroughs, especially amo...

Concept for interstellar object encounters developed, then simulated using a spacecraft swarm

Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)

"A human brain has many capabilities: talking, writing, etcetera," Tsukamoto said. "Deep learning creates a brain specialized for one of these capabilities with...

NASA's SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Skyward Mission After Shedding Protective Shield

Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)

This crucial component, which measured roughly 25 inches by 16 inches (64 cm by 40 cm), was designed to protect sensitive elements, including the trio of mirror...

DESI opens access to the largest 3D map of the universe yet

Mar 20, 2025 (SPX)

While the experiment's main mission is illuminating dark energy, DESI's Data Release 1 (DR1) could yield discoveries in other areas of astrophysics, such as the...

Oxygen detected in most distant galaxy: 'astonished' astronomers

Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)

The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, which was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope last year, is so far away that its light took 13.4 billion years to reach Eart...

New DESI results strengthen hints that dark energy may evolve

Mar 20, 2025 (SPX)

DESI is an international experiment with more than 900 researchers from over 70 institutions around the world and is managed by the U.S. Department of Energy's ...

'Dark universe detective' telescope releases first data

Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)

The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky -- encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies -- to create what has been billed as humanity's most a...

Chile reviews Chinese observatory plans slammed by US

Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)

Under an agreement signed by President Xi Jinping in 2016 with Chile's Catholic University of the North (UCN), the Ventarrones Astronomical Park was to be built...

Big Wheel galaxy challenges early cosmic formation theories

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

The discovery, made serendipitously through observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), revealed a disk galaxy from a time just two billion years a...

Cosmic ray research accelerated by machine learning insights

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

Harnessing AI for cosmic ray research, Glombitza employs machine learning (ML) techniques to rapidly process data from observatories studying cosmic radiation. ...

Dark energy seems to be changing, rattling our view of universe

Mar 19, 2025 (AFP)

If dark energy is in fact weakening, it would likely mean that science's understanding of how the universe works will need to be rewritten. The new findings com...

SuperSharp advances toward 2026 mission with funding boost and prototype completion

Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)

SuperSharp is pioneering compact telescopes that expand once in orbit to capture extremely detailed images of Earth. Their telescopes offer as much as ten times...

Deep learning model uncovers hidden stellar bubbles in Milky Way

Mar 18, 2025 (SPX)

These structures, commonly referred to as Spitzer bubbles, are prevalent in the Milky Way and other galaxies. They typically emerge during the formation and act...

Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system

Mar 18, 2025 (SPX)

The observations provide strong evidence that the system's four giant planets formed in much the same way as Jupiter and Saturn, by slowly building solid cores....

Astronomers unveil 3D map revealing how cosmic dust alters starlight

Mar 16, 2025 (SPX)

Starlight often reaches Earth altered by interstellar dust that dims and reddens it, a phenomenon that complicates efforts to accurately assess the intrinsic pr...

Understanding gamma rays in our universe through StarBurst

Mar 14, 2025 (SPX)

NRL transferred the instrument to NASA on March 4 for the next phase, environmental testing. From there, the instrument will be integrated onto the spacecraft b...

Astronomers Reveal Detailed 3D Map of Cosmic Dust

Mar 14, 2025 (SPX)

Cosmic dust interacts with starlight in a distinct way-absorbing shorter wavelengths (blue light) more strongly than longer wavelengths (red light). The specifi...