STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

The very rare and odd assemblage of stars has remained essentially unchanged for the past 10 billion years. This wayward stellar island provides valuable new in...

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

A research team led by Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has validated 15 exoplanets[2] orbiting red...

Radio telescope array to build surrounding

Mar 13, 2018 (XNA)

According to the FAST observation station with the National Astronomical Observatories, two to 10 radio telescopes measuring 30 meters in diameter may be set up...

Mysterious Signals Comes from Very Old Stars at Centre of Our Galaxy

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

Co-researcher Dr. Roland Crocker from ANU said the team had a working hypothesis that the signal was being emitted from thousands of rapidly spinning neutron st...

Earth is a Beaming Beacon in Kepler's Eyes

Mar 12, 2018 (JPL)

But the view of Earth from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is quite something else. This Kepler image of Earth was recently beamed back home. Captured on Dec. 10,...

Hubble offers new image of dramatic galactic collision

Mar 09, 2018 (ESA)

350 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus (the Sea Monster), a pair of barred spiral galaxies have just begun a magnificent merger. This image ...

ALMA reveals inner web of stellar nursery

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

The wispy, fibre-like structures seen in this large image are long filaments of cold gas, only visible to telescopes working in the millimetre wavelength range....

New 'HSC Viewer' allows public to access Subaru Telescope images

Mar 08, 2018 (UPI)

"I developed this viewer so the general public can become familiar with the latest, extensive HSC data," astronomer Michitaro Koike said in a Thursday news rele...

Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping the young star HR 4796A

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

The debris field of very fine dust was likely created from collisions among developing infant planets near the star, evidenced by a bright ring of dusty debris ...

Donor star breathes life into zombie companion

Mar 06, 2018 (ESA)

The X-ray flare was first detected by Integral on 13 August 2017 from an unknown source in the direction of the crowded centre of our Milky Way. The sudden dete...

Controlled coupling of light and matter

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Indeed, while many demonstrations of optical quantum processes require cryogenic temperatures to protect the quantum states, the present work elevates the quant...

Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map

Mar 04, 2018 (SPX)

The team located the positions and lensing signals of the dark matter halos and found indications that the number of halos could be inconsistent with what the s...

Explaining the increasing temperature of cooling granular gases

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

Granular gases are one of the few examples where this scientific mystery can be observed. These systems are widely spread in nature in the form of aerosols and ...

MSU-based scientists found out how to distinguish beams of entangled photons

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

David Nikolaevich Klyshko, professor of the Chair of Quantum Electronics at the Faculty of Physics, MSU discovered spontaneous parametric down conversion in 196...

A marriage of light-manipulation technologies

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

In the collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Harvard University, researchers successfully crafted a...

Search for first stars uncovers 'dark matter'

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

The idea that these signals implicate dark matter is based on a second Nature paper published this week, by Prof. Rennan Barkana of Tel Aviv University, which s...

Black holes from small galaxies might emit gamma rays

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

This is according to postdoctoral researcher Vaidehi Paliya in the department of physics and astronomy, whose January 2018 publication in The Astrophysical Jour...

Study reveals Milky Way stars being evicted by invading galaxies

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

One in a series of scientific papers contributing to this story appears this week in the journal Nature. "These stars are teaching us what happened to the Galac...

XMM-Newton spies first clear X-Ray flares from massive stellar lighthouse

Feb 28, 2018 (ESA)

Stars like the Sun are known to produce strong X-ray flares, but massive stars appear to be very different. In stars upwards of eight solar masses X-ray emissio...

Remote jets are clearer now

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

The new model enables scientists to predict how much rotational energy a black hole loses when it emits beams of ionized matter known as astrophysical jets. The...