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The Modes of Webb's NIRISS
Jun 06, 2022 (SPX)
"NIRISS will be able to capture both images and spectra from different types of celestial objects in near-infrared light, at wavelengths up to 5.0 microns. The ...
UCI-led astronomy team finds evidence of galactic metal shrouded in dust
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
For a paper published recently in Nature Astronomy, the researchers examined five galaxies that are dim in visible wavelengths but trillions of times more lumin...
Small molecules have big impacts in interstellar clouds
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
Jacob is the lead author on a recent paper characterizing the interstellar medium in the Milky Way using SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astro...
First images from Webb Space Telescope coming soon
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
"As we near the end of preparing the observatory for science, we are on the precipice of an incredibly exciting period of discovery about our universe. The rele...
Planet parade to grace the dawn sky this month
Jun 01, 2022 (SPX)
Throughout the month of June, shortly before the Sun rises, viewers could see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn - in that order - stretching across the sky ...
Artificial Intelligence helps in the identification of astronomical objects
May 31, 2022 (SPX)
Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco's (IA3) researchers Pedro Cunha and Andrew Humphrey tried to solve this classical problem by creating SHEEP, a mac...
Strange neutron star spinning every 76 seconds is discovered in stellar graveyard
May 31, 2022 (SPX)
The team, led by members of the ERC-funded MeerTRAP (More Transients and Pulsars) group at The University of Manchester say it is a unique discovery as it resid...
Chemists use light energy to produce small molecular rings
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
A team of chemists headed by Prof Frank Glorius from the University of Munster (Germany) has now succeeded in synthesising new and medically significant small m...
New discovery about distant galaxies: Stars are heavier than we thought
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way's closest neighbor, is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye. Photo: Getty For as long a...
Webb Nearly Set to Explore the Solar System
May 25, 2022 (SPX)
Webb needs to be able to lock on to these objects and track them with sufficient precision to obtain images and spectra. The Webb team recently completed the fi...
The chaotic early phase of the solar system
May 25, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers from ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS, in collaboration with an international team, analysed iron samples...
Ghostly 'mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversy
May 20, 2022 (SPX)
The Hubble constant is the rate of expansion of the universe today. Predictions for this rate - from cosmology's standard model - are significantly slower than ...
Researchers use galaxy as a 'cosmic telescope' to study heart of the young universe
May 19, 2022 (SPX)
After the big bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the early universe was filled with enormous clouds of neutral diffuse gas, known as Damped Lyman-a systems, or D...
Shaping the future of light through reconfigurable metasurfaces
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
One of the most impactful breakthroughs of lens technology in recent history has been the development of photonic metasurfaces - artificially engineered nano-sc...
Extraterrestrial stone brings first supernova clues to Earth
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
This is the conclusion from a new study published in the journal Icarus, by Jan Kramers, Georgy Belyanin and Hartmut Winkler of the University of Johannesburg, ...
Filamentary or flat is a matter of perspective
May 17, 2022 (SPX)
Cosmic clouds of gas and dust are the birthplaces of stars. More specifically, stars form in the densest pockets of such material. The temperatures drop to near...
Telescope set to unravel cosmic mysteries
May 17, 2022 (XNA)
The CSST is a bus-sized facility, whose length is equal to that of a three-story building. Although it has an aperture of 2 meters, a little smaller than the Hu...
Explosion on a white dwarf observed
May 13, 2022 (SPX)
"It was to some extent a fortunate coincidence, really," explains Ole Konig from the Astronomical Institute at FAU in the Dr. Karl Remeis observatory in Bamberg...
Astronomers find 'gold standard' star in Milky Way
May 12, 2022 (SPX)
The study, led by University of Michigan astronomer Ian Roederer, has identified 65 elements in the star, HD 222925. Forty-two of the elements identified are he...
MIRI's sharper view hints at new possibilities for science
May 10, 2022 (ESA)
The MIRI test image (at 7.7 microns) shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. This small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way provided a dense star field to test ...
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