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Homing in on source of cosmic radio bursts
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers have pinpointed for the first time the home galaxy of a fast radio burst, moving scientists a step closer to detecting what causes these powerful bu...
The Mystery of Part-Time Pulsars
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
A new discovery has upended the widely held view that all pulsars are orderly ticking clocks of the universe. A survey done at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto...
NASA's Webb Telescope to resume vibration testing in January
Jan 04, 2017 (SPX)
Vibration tests are one of the many tests that spacecraft and instruments endure to ensure they are fit for spaceflight. During routine testing of NASA's James ...
Hubble gazes at a cosmic megamaser
Jan 01, 2017 (SPX)
This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most - it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times br...
Astrophotography as a gateway to science
Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)
Non-science students enrolled in astrophotography classes created by scientists at the University of California, Riverside reported a better understanding of ho...
James Webb Space Telescope observatory is assembled
Dec 29, 2016 (ESA)
With less than two years remaining before its scheduled launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has passed several major milestones, including the complet...
Hubble spots megamaser
Dec 29, 2016 (UPI)
Megamasers are galaxies that act like one big laser that emits microwave radiation instead of visible light. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted IRAS 1...
Russian physicists measure the loss of dark matter since the birth of the universe
Dec 29, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from MIPT, the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Novosibirsk State University (NSU) have discovered that t...
Dark matter has decreased since the Big Bang: Study
Dec 28, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists in Russia have calculated the rate of dark matter decay, explaining the decline of dark matter in the universe since the Big Bang. Cosmologists and a...
New equipment funded for Joint Russian-German Spektrum-RG Observatory
Dec 28, 2016 (Sputnik)
Replacing electronic equipment for the future Spektrum-RG observatory due to the new estimates of radiation levels cost German participants of this project abou...
Feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Dec 26, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Princeton University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a rigorous new method for...
Preparing JWST for launch
Dec 23, 2016 (ESA)
In the second half of 2016, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was readied for an intensive series of environmental tests, an essential step in ensuring that...
Moth's Eye Inspires Critical Component on SOFIA's Newest Instrument
Dec 23, 2016 (SPX)
Nature, and more particularly a moth's eye, inspired the technology that allows a new NASA-developed camera to create images of astronomical objects with far gr...
Festive nebulae light up Milky Way Galaxy satellite
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this. This glowing pink nebula, named NGC...
ESO: ALMA's Ability to Search for Water in the Universe Improved
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has begun observing in a new range of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has been made possible...
Avalanche statistics suggest Tabby's star is near a continuous phase transition
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
In its search for extrasolar planets, the Kepler space telescope looks for stars whose light flux periodically dims, signaling the passing of an orbiting planet...
VLA, ALMA team up to give first look at birthplaces of most current stars
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have gotten their first look at exactly where most of today's stars were born. To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky ...
Fluctuations in extragalactic gamma rays reveal two source classes but no dark matter
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the University of Amsterdam GRAPPA Center of Excellence just published the most precise analysis ...
Astronomers release largest digital survey of the visible Universe
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
The world's largest digital survey of the visible Universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released. The data has been made available...
Texas A and M-Led Study Helps Prove Galaxy Evolution Theory
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Everyone has a backstory, even our own Milky Way galaxy. And much like social media, the picture is not always as pretty as it appears on the current surface, s...
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