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Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)
The pulsar was detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, in Western Australia's remote Mid West region. It's the first time scientists have d...
New warp research dashes light speed travel but reveals stranger possibilities
Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)
It was an intriguing idea - even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory - but Alcubierre's proposal contained problems that seemed insurmount...
Surprise twist suggests stars grow competitively
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
The Universe is populated with stars of various masses. Dense cores in clouds of interstellar gas collapse under their own gravity to form stars, but what deter...
Fast-spinning black holes narrow the search for dark matter particles
Apr 15, 2021 (SPX)
Now, physicists at MIT's LIGO Laboratory have searched for ultralight bosons using black holes - objects that are mind-bending orders of magnitude more massive ...
A molecule that responds to light
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
Whether in drug development, communication, or for climate forecasts: Processing information quickly and efficiently is crucial in many areas. It is currently d...
Stellar feedback and an airborne observatory; scientists determine a nebula younger than believed
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
An international team led by West Virginia University researchers studied RCW 120 to analyze the effects of stellar feedback, the process by which stars inject ...
Yellowballs offer new insights into star formation
Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)
"Yellowballs are small compact features that were identified in infrared images acquired by the Spitzer Space Telescope during online discussions on the Milky W...
Search for sterile neutrinos: It's all about a bend in the curve
Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)
Strictly speaking, the neutrino is not a singleparticle but rather comprises several species: the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino. Th...
China's FAST telescope to int'l scientists enhances collaboration
Apr 11, 2021 (XNA)
"The telescope is brand new. Many people want to use it, and there's a lot of competition to use the telescope," said McClure-Griffiths in an interview with Xin...
Trio of fast-spinning brown dwarfs may reveal a rotational speed limit
Apr 08, 2021 (JPL)
In a study appearing in the Astronomical Journal, the team that made the new speed measurements argue that these three rapid rotators could be approaching a spi...
Webb Telescope packs its sunshield for a million mile trip
Apr 08, 2021 (SPX)
Designed to protect the telescope's optics from any heat sources that could interfere with its sight, the sunshield is one of Webb's most critical and complex c...
Dark Energy Survey physicists open new window into dark energy
Apr 07, 2021 (SPX)
Reaching that goal turned out to be pretty tricky, but now a team led by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanfor...
Scientists achieve single-photon imaging over 200km
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
Lidar imaging technology has enabled high precision 3D imaging of target scene in recent year. Single photon imaging lidar is an ideal technology for remote opt...
Distant, spiralling stars give clues to the forces that bind sub-atomic particles
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
Neutron stars are dead stars that have been compressed by gravity to the size of small cities. They contain the most extreme matter in the universe, meaning the...
A new phase in Bose-Einstein condensate of light particles observed
Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Martin Weitz, who discovered the super photon, and theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Johann Kroha have returned from their latest "ex...
FAST forward with greater responsibility
Apr 02, 2021 (XNA)
Which means FAST, the world's most sensitive and largest single-dish radio telescope, opened to the world less than four months after the United States' Arecibo...
Selection of the first James Webb Space Telescope General Observer Scientific Programmes
Apr 01, 2021 (ESA)
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory when it launches later this year. Webb will solve mysteries ab...
China's FAST telescope to officially open to global astronomers
Apr 01, 2021 (XNA)
Astronomers worldwide can visit http://fast.bao.ac.cn/proposal_submit to submit their applications for observations, said the National Astronomical Observatorie...
Decades of hunting detects footprint of cosmic ray superaccelerators in our galaxy
Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)
"We found 23 ultrahigh-energy cosmic gamma rays along the Milky Way," said Kazumasa Kawata, a coauthor from the University of Tokyo. "The highest energy among t...
Webb Telescope General Observer Scientific Programs Selected
Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)
The 286 selected proposals address a wide variety of science areas and will help fulfill NASA's overarching mission to further our understanding of the universe...
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