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Exploring the geometry of the dark Universe
Jun 30, 2023 (ESA)
After a four-week journey, the telescope, which weighs approximately two tonnes, will rotate in an orbit around the second Lagrange point (L2), which lies 1.5 m...
Europe's space telescope to target universe's dark mysteries
Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)
The launch is planned from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 11:11 am local time (1511 GMT) on a Falcon 9 rocket of the US company SpaceX. The European Space Agency ...
NASA's Roman and ESA's Euclid will team up to investigate dark energy
Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)
"Twenty-five years after its discovery, the universe's accelerated expansion remains one of the most pressing mysteries in astrophysics," said Jason Rhodes, a s...
'Smiling cat' nebula captured in new ESO image
Jun 28, 2023 (SPX)
The Sh2-284 stellar nursery is a vast region of dust and gas and its brightest part, visible in this image, is about 150 light-years (over 1400 trillion kilomet...
Webb makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule
Jun 27, 2023 (SPX)
Carbon compounds form the foundations of all known life, and as such are particularly interesting to scientists working to understand both how life developed on...
Euclid meets Falcon 9 adaptor
Jun 27, 2023 (ESA)
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to help us uncover the great cosmic mystery of dark matter and dark energy. The space telescope will observe more than a third ...
Dark matter remains dark
Jun 24, 2023 (SPX)
A particularly promising theoretical approach implies that dark matter could consist of particles that are extremely light and behave more like waves than indiv...
Nanophotonics: Coupling light and matter
Jun 24, 2023 (SPX)
As well as allowing sunlight to be captured much more effectively, they also facilitate improved optical wave-guiding and emissions control. The strong coupling...
Stellar demolition derby births powerful gamma-ray burst
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
Although most GRBs originate from exploding massive stars or neutron-star mergers, the researchers concluded that GRB 191019A instead came from the collision of...
Never before seen way to annihilate a star
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
Most stars in the Universe die in predictable ways, depending on their mass. Relatively low-mass stars like our Sun slough off their outer layers in old age and...
Molecular filament shielded young solar system from supernova
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
Primitive meteorites preserve information about the conditions at the birth of the Sun and planets. The meteorite components show an inhomogeneous concentration...
Milky Way's central black hole woke up 200 years ago
Jun 22, 2023 (SPX)
Sagittarius A* is more than 25,000 light years from Earth - our nearest supermassive black hole, with an estimated mass millions of times that of our Sun. Often...
An amino acid essential for life is found in interstellar space
Jun 21, 2023 (SPX)
Using data from the Spitzer Space Observatory she identifies more than 10 emission bands of this molecule, the strongest according to her laboratory measurement...
Europe's Euclid space telescope to launch on July 1
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with the broadcast beginning at 1430 GMT, the ESA said in a tweet. Euclid wa...
Navigating underground with cosmic-ray muons
Jun 16, 2023 (SPX)
GPS, the global positioning system, is a well-established navigation tool and offers an extensive list of positive applications, from safer air travel to real-t...
Astronomers discover new link between dark matter and clumpiness of the universe
Jun 15, 2023 (SPX)
The research suggests that the "clumpiness problem," which centres on the unexpectedly even distribution of matter on large scales throughout the cosmos, may be...
CALET captures charge-sign dependent cosmic ray modulation
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
Specifically, the intensity of GCRs on Earth is affected by the tilt angle of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS), a spiral surface separating the direction of...
What's the dark matter with Euclid
Jun 09, 2023 (ESA)
Currently about halfway through the Euclid simulations campaign, the key focus in the Main Control Room is the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) and spacecraf...
New keen-sighted satellite will view distant stars, assist Webb telescope
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
Last month, NASA selected the $8.5 million space mission, which is called Monitoring Activity from Nearby sTars with uv Imaging and Spectroscopy (MANTIS). This ...
Existence of massive first-generation stars with 260 solar masses confirmed
Jun 09, 2023 (XNA)
Previously, studies had only confirmed the existence of first-generation stars of under 100 solar masses, and thus the latest results refresh the understanding ...
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