STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

China Focus: World's largest telescope more powerful, popular after two years

Sep 27, 2018 (XNA)

"The Sound of Pulsar Stars collected by FAST," read a sign next to the stand. FAST, Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world's larges...

New understanding of light allows researchers to see around corners

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

It's a bit complicated, but the new sensing method the UCF team developed could lends itself to a number of practical applications, including use in defense, su...

Team of researchers determines absolute duration of photoelectric effect for the first time

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

However, the international team developed a new measuring method which now allows the time between the absorption of an X-ray photon and the emission of an elec...

Gaia detects a shake in the Milky Way

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

"These substructures -she adds- allow us to conclude that the disk of our galaxy suffered an important gravitational disturbance about 300 and 900 million years...

GBT upgrade to sharpen telescope's vision

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

This upgrade will allow the telescope to observe celestial objects, day or night, at radio wavelengths as small as 3 millimeters. This new capability is essenti...

Westerbork radio telescope's major upgrade

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

The iconic 50-year old Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) has been upgraded with a new high-speed, wide-field radio camera called Apertif. Using a tech...

A new twist on stellar rotation

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

In its outer layers the Sun has a rotation pattern that scientists refer to as 'latitudinal differential rotation.' This means that different latitudes rotate a...

Light provides spin

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

The sun plays an important role in the use of renewable energy sources. Its radiation energy provides heat and the light it provides can be converted into elect...

Astronomers witness birth of new star from stellar explosion

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

That's what Dan Milisavljevic, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University, believes he saw six years after "SN 2012au" exploded. "We h...

Gaia hints at our Galaxy's turbulent life

Sep 20, 2018 (ESA)

The close encounter likely took place sometime in the past 300-900 million years. It was discovered because of the pattern of movement it has given to stars in ...

AI helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a SETI project led by the University of California, Berkeley, have now used machine learning to discover 72 new fast radio b...

The surprising environment of an enigmatic neutron star

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

"This particular neutron star belongs to a group of seven nearby X-ray pulsars--nicknamed 'the Magnificent Seven'--that are hotter than they ought to be conside...

Going off-road in the search for dark skies

Sep 20, 2018 (ESA)

The Nissan Navara 'Dark Sky' concept vehicle features a bespoke off-road trailer carrying a high-power observatory-class PlaneWave telescope. The trailer has be...

UK Scientists Contribute to Project to Unlock Mysteries of Neutrinos

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

Based on the Swiss/French border the experiment, ProtoDUNE, has included substantial contributions from UK scientists and engineers as they reach this latest mi...

Magellanic Clouds Due May Have Been a Trio

Sep 19, 2018 (SPX)

Research published this week describes how another "luminous" galaxy was likely engulfed by the Large Magellanic Cloud some three to five billion years ago. ICR...

First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype International Neutrino Experiment

Sep 19, 2018 (SPX)

DUNE's scientific mission is dedicated to unlocking the mysteries of neutrinos, the most abundant (and most mysterious) matter particles in the universe. Neutri...

Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe

Sep 19, 2018 (SPX)

Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, succ...

Uncovering the birthplaces of stars in the Milky Way

Sep 17, 2018 (SPX)

Stars in galactic discs have long been known to wander away from their birth sites owing to a phenomenon known as "radial migration." This movement across the g...

BUFFALO charges towards the earliest galaxies

Sep 17, 2018 (SPX)

Learning about the formation and evolution of the very first galaxies in the Universe is crucial for our understanding of the cosmos. While the NASA/ESA Hubble ...

Magnetic waves create chaos in star-forming clouds

Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)

Her research sheds light on the processes that are responsible for setting the properties of stars, which in turn affects the formation of planets orbiting them...