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Gaia confirms extra-tidal stars around globular cluster
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
As context for the research the team did, Kunder explained that the Milky Way galaxy hosts around 150 globular clusters - spherical collections of stars bound t...
NASA awards the short wave infra-red sensor chip assembly for WFIRST
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
Managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, WFIRST is fully-funded for Fiscal Year 2018. Work will continue on the mission in this tim...
Research shows short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary neutron star mergers
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, represent a key step forward in astrophysicists' understanding of the relationship between binary neutron st...
Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop
Jun 19, 2018 (ESA)
This digital space exploration story starts with the Integrated Medium for Planetary Exploration (IMPEx), a collaborative project to create a common data hub fo...
A new experiment to understand dark matter
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have proposed a new experiment that makes use of super-dense stars to learn more a...
New experiment to aid study of dark matter
Jun 18, 2018 (UPI)
In search of new insights into the nature of dark matter, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have proposed a new expe...
New GAIA data reveals mergers in Milky Way
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
The study is based on the recent Gaia Data Release 2. This provided the astronomical community with accurate information on the position and movement of million...
Dust clouds can explain puzzling features of active galactic nuclei
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
A new analysis by researchers at UC Santa Cruz, published June 14 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, explains these and other puzzling featur...
A New Experiment to Understand Dark Matter
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
Around 1600, Galileo Galilei's experiments brought him to the conclusion that in the gravitational field of the Earth all bodies, independent of their mass and ...
Fermi x-ray telescope celebrates 10 years of discoveries
Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)
"Fermi's first 10 years have produced numerous scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the gamma-ray universe," said Paul Hertz, As...
Experiments trace interstellar dust back to solar system's formation
Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)
The initial solids from which the solar system formed consisted almost entirely of amorphous silicate, carbon and ices. This dust was mostly destroyed and rewor...
SwRI: Technology Selected for NASA Mission to Map Solar System Boundary
Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)
IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a sort of magnetic bubble surrounding and protecting our solar system. This is whe...
Discovery in the sky with nanodiamonds
Jun 13, 2018 (SPX)
For decades scientists have been able to measure this 'glow' of microwave light, dubbed the anomalous microwave emission (AME), coming from a number of regions ...
Nanodiamonds explain mysterious source of Milky Way microwaves
Jun 11, 2018 (UPI)
The shimmer is known as anomalous microwave emission, or AME. For decades, scientists have struggled to explain why the odd glow emanates from several of the ga...
Sleek telescope makes it in the Big Apple
Jun 08, 2018 (ESA)
The Stellina telescope has no traditional eyepiece, and instead delivers gorgeous images direct to the owner's smartphone or tablet, and is entirely controlled ...
200-Year-Old Stellar Mystery Gets Closer to Resolution
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
Humanity has witnessed and documented only eight eclipse cycles since then (the last one ended in 2010; the next one starts in 2036). Study of this binary star ...
20 years keeping an eye on R Aquarii
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
This system, known as R Aquarii for its apparent location in the large zodiacal constellation of Aquarius, is an important example of the effects of the gravita...
Magnetic fields could hold the key to star formation
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
The structure consists of cosmic dust and cold, dense gas that have nurseries of stars forming at their tips. This innovative research has shown that the magnet...
More Mystery Objects Found Near Milky Way's Black Hole
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
At today's American Astronomical Society Meeting in Denver, a team of researchers led by UCLA Postdoctoral Scholar Anna Ciurlo announced their results, which th...
Zerodur has been Schott's material answer for astronomy applications for 50 years
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
SCHOTT will supply the ELT with 798 ZERODUR blanks including spares to form its primary mirror out of 798 hexagonal tiles and will create its monolithic mirrors...
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