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University of Helsinki researchers solve cosmic conundrum
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
Most galaxies in the universe fall into one of two categories: firstly, elliptical galaxies, made mostly of old stars and containing typically extremely massive...
Webb reveals new features in heart of the Milky Way
Nov 21, 2023 (ESA)
Amid the estimated 500 000 stars in the image is a cluster of protostars - stars that are still forming and gaining mass - producing outflows that glow like a b...
Physicists answer question of Supergalactic Plane's absent spiral galaxies
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
The Supergalactic Plane is an enormous, flattened structure extending nearly a billion light years across in which our own Milky Way galaxy is embedded. While t...
Boomerang-like beams of light
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
"Imagine that you are throwing a tennis ball. The ball starts moving forward with positive momentum. If the ball doesn't hit an obstacle, you are unlikely to ex...
IXPE untangles theories surrounding historic supernova remnant
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
"Magnetic fields are extremely difficult to measure, but IXPE provides an efficient way for us to probe them," said Dr. Ping Zhou, an astrophysicist at Nanjing ...
Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
About once per day, a brief flash of gamma radiation, the most energetic form of light, reaches Earth from the distant Universe. We have known these gamma-ray b...
ALMA demonstrates highest resolution yet
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
ALMA is a radio interferometric array telescope, in which individual antennas work together to observe a celestial object. ALMA's resolution, the ability to see...
Downloading NASA's dark matter data from above the clouds
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
In April, the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was launched from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, suspended under a helium-filled balloon the siz...
With unprecedented flares, stellar corpse shows signs of life
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
The bright, brief flashes - as short as a few minutes in duration, and as powerful as the original explosion 100 days later - appeared in the aftermath of a rar...
Astronomers baffled by repeat explosions 100 billion times the energy of the Sun
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
The report, published in Nature, describes a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) monitored in a new way and shown to have unusual behaviour. LFBOTs are...
Deep learning speeds up galactic calculations
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
When you hear about deep learning, you might think of the latest app that sprung up this week to do something clever with images or generate humanlike text. Dee...
NASA telescope data becomes music you can play
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
Since 2020, the "sonification" project at NASA's Chandra X-ray Center has translated the digital data taken by telescopes into notes and sounds. This process al...
Blast from the past: Gamma-ray burst strikes Earth from distant exploding star
Nov 15, 2023 (ESA)
At 14:21 BST / 15:21 CEST on 9 October 2022, an extremely bright and long-lasting gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected by many of the high-energy satellites in or...
Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
Nov 15, 2023 (SPX)
The study included more than seven million data points representing particles arriving at CALET's detector since 2015, and CALET's ability to detect electrons a...
Gemini North peers deeper into the dust with new instrument
Nov 14, 2023 (SPX)
IGRINS-2 (Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph-2) has set its 'eyes' on the sky for the first time. Mounted on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the In...
Brightest flash ever disturbed Earth's atmosphere last year
Nov 14, 2023 (AFP)
A massive burst of gamma rays from an enormous cosmic explosion around two billion light years away arrived at Earth on October 9, 2022, lighting up telescopes ...
Webb, Hubble telescopes combine to create most colorful view of universe
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
The new image, dubbed the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster by the research team that includes Texas A and M University astronomer Dr. Lifan Wang, combines visible ...
Milky Way-like galaxy found in the early universe
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
Until now it was believed that barred spiral galaxies like the Milky Way could not be observed before the universe, estimated to be 13.8 billion years old, reac...
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
Nov 10, 2023 (JPL)
Three cones, each nestled within the other, will surround SPHEREx's telescope to protect it from the light and heat of the Sun and Earth. The spacecraft will sw...
China kicks off construction of new telescopes for future lunar missions
Nov 10, 2023 (XNA)
The two telescopes, developed by Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, are expected to offer technical support for the...
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