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Our surprising magnetic galaxy
Jan 12, 2024 (SPX)
It might come as a surprise to some that magnetic fields can exist on scales larger than a planet. Most of our daily experience with magnetic fields involves ei...
Light-magnetism link opens doors to high-speed memory tech
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
Prof. Amir Capua, leading the Spintronics Lab at the Institute of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, emphasized the significance of this breakthrough. ...
Blob-like home of farthest-known fast radio burst is collection of seven galaxies
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
Using images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers traced the FRB back to not one galaxy but a group of at least seven galaxies. The galaxies in t...
NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
These findings are being presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in New Orleans. To help explain the mystery of the infrared emissio...
Nanoscale electron movement analysis using advanced light pulses
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
This investigation, part of the rapidly evolving domain of ultrafast electron dynamics, employed laser pulses to observe electron movement within nanomaterials....
Dark energy discovery a decade in the making: new supernova insights offer clues to the expansion of the universe
Jan 09, 2024 (SPX)
DES scientists took data for 758 nights across six years to understand the nature of dark energy and measure the expansion rate of the universe. They found that...
Space Oddity: Uncovering the Origin of the Universe's Rare Radio Circles
Jan 09, 2024 (SPX)
As the astrophysics community tried to determine what these circles were, they also wanted to know why the circles were. Now a team led by University of Califor...
Unveiling Cosmic Secrets: Dark Matter's Role in Tracing Primordial Magnetic Fields
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
Magnetic fields, a pervasive force found throughout the universe, have long intrigued scholars. Their origins, especially on cosmic scales, remain one of the en...
Hubble views a vast galactic neighborhood
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
This image is a really interesting example of how challenging it can be to tell whether two galaxies are actually close together, or just seem to be from our pe...
Cosmic chemistry unveils stellar dance: ALMA telescope discovers hidden orbit secrets
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
The ground-breaking study, published in Nature Astronomy, sheds light on the orbit of a cool red giant star, shedding its outer layers in a dramatic stellar win...
30 Doradus B: NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang
Jan 04, 2024 (SPX)
The new image of 30 Dor B was made by combining X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple), optical data from the Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chi...
FAST All Sky HI Survey Achieves Major Milestone in Extragalactic Astronomy
Jan 04, 2024 (SPX)
FAST, renowned for its massive aperture, offers an unparalleled view of the cosmos in the radio spectrum. FASHI's coverage extends across declinations from -14 ...
Sodium's high-pressure transformation can tell us about the interiors of stars, planets
Jan 01, 2024 (SPX)
The mounting pressure within stars and planets can cause metals to become nonconducting insulators. Sodium has been shown to transform from a shiny, gray-colore...
New 1.5-billion-pixel ESO image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail
Jan 01, 2024 (SPX)
This vast stellar nursery is located in the constellation Centaurus (the Centaur), at about 6500 light-years from Earth. Young stars within this nebula emit int...
It's all relative
Jan 01, 2024 (ESA)
This image is a really interesting example of how challenging it can be to tell whether two galaxies are actually close together, or just seem to be from our pe...
Further evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars
Jan 01, 2024 (SPX)
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day Universe, with as much as two solar masses of matter compressed inside a s...
Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA's Webb
Dec 27, 2023 (SPX)
Webb's success builds on four decades of space telescopes that also detect infrared light (which is invisible to the naked eye) - in particular the work of two ...
Astronomers detect seismic ripples in ancient galactic disk
Dec 26, 2023 (SPX)
At more than 12 billion years old, BRI 1335-0417 is the oldest and furthest known spiral galaxy in our universe. Lead author Dr Takafumi Tsukui said a state-of-...
Gaia's decade of discoveries: unravelling the intricacies of our galaxy
Dec 26, 2023 (ESA)
At the start of the millennium, it became clear that in order to understand our galaxy's intricacies we needed precise, comprehensive data, and a dedicated, hig...
Telescope Dismantled and Heading to New Mission in Chile
Dec 26, 2023 (SPX)
At the summit, one can find several of the world's finest telescopes, including the W. M. Keck Observatory, a partnership between Caltech and the University of ...
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