STELLAR CHEMISTRY - SKY NIGHTLY

NASA missions study what may be a 1-in-10,000-year gamma-ray burst

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

The source was a gamma-ray burst (GRB), the most powerful class of explosions in the universe. The burst triggered detectors on numerous spacecraft, and observa...

Helium-burning white dwarf discovered

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

The unusual thing about this source is that it is helium and not hydrogen that overflows and burns. The measured luminosity suggests that the mass of the white ...

How football-shaped molecules occur in the universe

Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)

"We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon." In the song they performed at Woodstock, the US group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young summarise...

Sculpting quantum materials for the electronics of the future

Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)

The telecommunications of the future will require new, extremely powerful electronic devices. These must be capable of processing electromagnetic signals at unp...

Scientists open door to manipulating 'quantum light'

Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)

This unprecedented achievement represents an important landmark in the development of quantum technologies. It is published in Nature Physics. Stimulated light ...

Fermi captures dynamic gamma-ray sky in new animation

Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)

This animation shows the gamma-ray sky's frenzied activity during a year of observations from February 2022 to February 2023. The pulsing circles represent just...

Study shines new light on ancient microbial dark matter

Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)

Despite their abundance, surprisingly little is known about many microorganisms that have existed for billions of years. This includes an entire lineage of nano...

NASA James Webb Telescope returns rare Wolf-Rayet images

Mar 14, 2023 (UPI)

The space agency Tuesday released images of the star in transition, which were captured in "unprecedented detail." Wolf-Rayet 124 comes with "a distinctive halo...

First images released from Webb largest general observer program

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

COSMOS-Web aims to map the earliest structures of the universe and will create a wide and deep survey of up to 1 million galaxies. Over the course of 255 hours ...

In the world's smallest ball game, scientists throw and catch single atoms using light

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

This amazing feat was achieved with optical traps, which use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move tiny objects. Although optical traps have been used to...

Millions of galaxies emerge in new simulated images from Roman Space Telescope

Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)

The simulation will help scientists plan the best observing strategies, test different ways to mine the mission's vast quantities of data, and explore what we c...

Chandra helps astronomers discover a surprisingly lonely galaxy

Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)

In several regards, 3C 297 has the qualities of a galaxy cluster, a gigantic structure that contains hundreds or even thousands of individual galaxies. X-ray da...

Astronomers detect radio recombination lines of carbon oxygen ions for first time

Mar 07, 2023 (SPX)

Ionized gas is the most widely distributed interstellar gas component and an important laboratory for measuring the abundance of elements. Radio recombination l...

Dark matter halos: the key to understanding galaxies

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

What is left of the rest of the universe? The rest is matter we can think with relief. However, the matter that we know, which forms galaxies, their stars, nebu...

The Roman Space Telescope will rewind the Universe

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

"The Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes are optimized for studying astronomical objects in depth and up close, so they're like looking at the universe throu...

Major collaboration reveals new insights on binary star systems

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

According to theoretical calculations, these rotating discs should show a dynamic instability: about once an hour, the inner parts of the disc rapidly fall onto...

Galactic explosion offers astrophysicists new insight into the cosmos

Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)

The study, published recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, provides new infrared measurements of one of the brightest galaxies in our cosmic neighborho...

IXPE unlocks mysteries of Tycho Supernova

Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)

The supernova remnant is called Tycho, named for Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who noticed the bright glow of this new "star" in the constellation Cassiopeia i...

Baby star near the black hole in the middle of our Milky Way: It exists after all

Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)

The special thing about baby star X3a is that theoretically it should not be able to exist so close to the supermassive black hole in the first place. However, ...

Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

Feb 28, 2023 (SPX)

"We found this galaxy to be super-chemically abundant, something none of us expected," said Bo Peng, a doctoral student in astronomy, who led the data analysis....