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NASA's mini BurstCube mission detects mega blast
Sep 05, 2024 (SPX)
"We're excited to collect science data," said Sean Semper, BurstCube's lead engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "It's an impo...
Q&A: Astronomers await a once-every-80-years stellar explosion
Sep 03, 2024 (SPX)
Q: We've seen some Q&A: Astronomers await a "once-every-80-years" stellar explosions about a stellar explosion that might be happening sometime very soon. Can y...
New Insights into r-process Nucleosynthesis Highlight Heavy Element Formation
Aug 30, 2024 (SPX)
The formation of elements heavier than iron has long intrigued the physics community. While stars can fuse elements up to iron, the creation of heavier elements...
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter
Aug 27, 2024 (SPX)
LZ, led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), hunts for dark matter from a cavern nearly one mile underground at t...
Ancient binary star system found traveling from Milky Way's Outer Halo
Aug 26, 2024 (SPX)
The international team, including experts from the University of Hertfordshire, the UK, Spain, and China, made the discovery while examining stars near Earth. T...
Study predicts gravitational waves from collapsing massive stars
Aug 26, 2024 (SPX)
These gravitational waves are produced when stars, 15 to 20 times more massive than the sun, exhaust their fuel and undergo a catastrophic collapse, leading to ...
Polaris Revealed to Have Spotted Surface in New Detailed Observations
Aug 22, 2024 (SPX)
Polaris, the star marking the direction of Earth's North Pole, is renowned not only as a navigation beacon but also as a significant astronomical object. It is ...
Hubble Investigates a Dwarf Galaxy Beyond the Local Group
Aug 21, 2024 (SPX)
UGC 4879 is an isolated dwarf galaxy located just outside the Local Group, approximately four million light-years from Earth. This galaxy stands out due to its ...
Scientists investigate cosmic chemistry for clues to life's origins
Aug 21, 2024 (SPX)
Barnes is scheduled to present the research at the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Fall 2024 meeting, which is being held both virtually and in person from Au...
Star Zips Through the Milky Way at Record Speed
Aug 16, 2024 (SPX)
This exceptional star may be on a path that could eventually take it out of the Milky Way galaxy. The research, led by Professor Adam Burgasser of UC San Diego,...
Coma Cluster's Dark Matter Origins Captured by Dark Energy Camera
Aug 15, 2024 (SPX)
This dense cluster is not composed of individual stars, but of entire galaxies. The Coma Cluster lies within the constellation Coma Berenices, which is the only...
Cosmic Ray Data from AMS Reveals Unexpected Deuteron Surplus
Aug 15, 2024 (SPX)
Cosmic rays are generally categorized as either primary, originating from cosmic events like supernova explosions, or secondary, produced when primary cosmic ra...
Neutrinos detected by prototype at DUNE's cutting-edge observatory
Aug 14, 2024 (SPX)
Neutrinos, fundamental particles from the early universe, are key to understanding more about the fundamental laws of nature, including the mystery of why there...
NASA scientists hope to use Cold Atom Lab to better understand dark energy
Aug 13, 2024 (UPI)
A new study released Tuesday in the science journal Nature Communications, NASA's Cold Atom Lab on the International Space Station measured subtle vibrations of...
Webb Telescope Captures Detailed Image of Messier 106's Active Core
Aug 13, 2024 (SPX)
At the center of Messier 106 lies a supermassive black hole that is particularly active compared to the one in the Milky Way. While the Milky Way's black hole o...
NASA tests deployment of Roman Space Telescope's 'Visor'
Aug 10, 2024 (SPX)
Designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Deployable Aperture Cover consists of two layers of reinforced thermal blan...
Plasma Bubble Confirmed as Source of Persistent Emission in Fast Radio Burst FRB20201124A
Aug 08, 2024 (SPX)
In rare instances, the rapid bursts characteristic of FRBs coincide with persistent radio emissions. A recent study led by the Italian National Institute for As...
Leicester-Built Telescope Joins SMILE Mission to Study Solar Wind
Aug 06, 2024 (SPX)
The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), part of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, is a wide-field X-ray telescope designed to spectral...
Scientists reassess source of radioactive beryllium in early Solar System
Aug 05, 2024 (SPX)
A team at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) investigated the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, present during the solar system's f...
NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory installs secondary mirror on Simonyi Survey Telescope
Aug 05, 2024 (SPX)
The team at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has completed the installation of the 3.5-meter secondary mirror assembly on the Simonyi Survey Teles...
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