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Light has momentum, new research confirms
Aug 21, 2018 (UPI)
The breakthrough confirmed light possesses momentum, an idea first proposed by the great German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1619. Kepler surmised the pressure...
First Science with ALMA's Highest-Frequency Capabilities
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
Recently, scientists pushed ALMA to its limits, harnessing the array's highest-frequency (shortest wavelength) capabilities, which peer into a part of the elect...
Study of material surrounding distant stars shows Earth's ingredients 'pretty normal'
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
This is amongst the largest examinations to measure the general composition of materials in other planetary systems, and begins to allow scientists to draw more...
Magnetized Inflow Accreting to Center of Milky Way
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
Their result provides clear evidences in showing that the orientation of the magnetic field is in alignment with the molecular torus and ionized streamers rotat...
Sprawling galaxy cluster found hiding in plain sight
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
The central quasar goes by the name PKS1353-341 and is intensely bright - so bright that for decades astronomers observing it in the night sky have assumed that...
NASA's NICER Does the Space Station Twist
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
Movement in the movie, which represents a little more than one 90-minute orbit, is sped up by 100 times. One factor in NICER's gyrations is the motion of the sp...
SKA Telescope Manager Critical Design Review Successfully Completed
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
Nine of the consortia focused on a component of the telescope, each critical to the overall success of the project, while three others focused on developing adv...
Hubble Paints Picture of the Evolving Universe
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
Hubble's ultraviolet vision opens a new window on the evolving universe, tracking the birth of stars over the last 11 billion years back to the cosmos' busiest ...
Astronomers find far fewer galaxies than they expected
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
To learn why the differences occurred, the astronomers used one of the world's largest telescopes, the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, to search for ga...
Arecibo Observatory to get $5.8 Million Upgrade to Expand View
Aug 17, 2018 (SPX)
The team, led by Brigham Young University engineering professors Brian Jeffs and Karl Warnick, includes collaborators at UCF and Cornell University. UCF and its...
New Gamma-Ray Bursts Research Reveals Time-Reversible Mirroring Effect
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
Hakkila and student researchers have discovered a peculiarity in the light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that may provide a breakthrough in understanding th...
Students digging into data archive spot mysterious X-ray source
Aug 13, 2018 (ESA)
When XMM-Newton was launched in 1999, most students who are finishing high school today were not even born. Yet ESA's almost two-decade old X-ray observatory ha...
Chinese astronomers discover most lithium-rich giant in galaxy with LAMOST
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
The findings were realized with the help of The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a special quasi-meridian reflecting Schmidt ...
Balloon-borne telescope looks for cosmic gamma rays
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Nuclear emulsion film can record tracks of high-energy charged particles at the highest accuracy level in the world. The gamma telescope developed by the GRAINE...
Elliptical Elegance
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Whereas ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) can observe very faint astronomical objects in great detail, when astronomers want to understand how the huge variety o...
Time saving tooling rods used on Webb Telescope sunshield
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
In these photos, technicians install these small metal rods into premade holes of Webb's sunshield to maintain alignment of its five tennis-court-sized sunshiel...
Water is destroyed, then reborn in ultrahot Jupiters
Aug 10, 2018 (JPL)
What has puzzled scientists is why water vapor appears to be missing from the toasty worlds' atmospheres, when it is abundant in similar but slightly cooler pla...
Pairs of small colliding galaxies may seed future stars
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
"You have this enormous reserve of star formation fuel sitting there ready to be stripped by another system," says study coauthor Mary Putman, an astronomer at ...
Observatory receives funds to repair St Croix radio telescope
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
The VLBA is a continent-wide radio telescope system providing the highest resolution, or ability to see fine detail, of any astronomical facility. It consists o...
Another blow for dark matter interpretation of galactic center excess
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
However, physicists from the University of Amsterdam/GRAPPA and the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Theorique have now found further evidence that rap...
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