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NASA embarks on 3-month alignment of Webb telescope's massive mirror
Feb 08, 2021 (UPI)
The mirror had to be large enough to capture infrared light from the universe's earliest galaxies, but also had to be sectioned and folded in order to build and...
A warp in the Milky Way linked to galactic collision
Feb 08, 2021 (SPX)
"If you have ever seen the audience making a wave in a stadium, it's very similar to that concept," said Xinlun Cheng, an astronomy graduate student in the Univ...
NASA-DLR cooperation - from Cologne to the stars
Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)
"The SOFIA infrared observatory is one of the largest German-American projects for space exploration and underlines how important the cooperation with NASA is f...
An art lover dreams of space
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Prior to high school, Sanchez was primarily interested in visual arts and movies. She taught herself animation and aspired to work in the creative realm. Howeve...
True identity of mysterious gamma-ray source revealed
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
The international collaboration used novel data analysis methods and the enormous computing power of the citizen science project Einstein@Home to track down the...
Survey reveals structural diversity of 3,000 galaxies
Feb 02, 2021 (UPI)
To better understand both the breadth of galactic diversity and the different ways galaxies relate to and interact with one another, researchers in Australia de...
Ball Aerospace completes integration of NASA's IXPE Observatory
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
Scheduled to launch later this year, once on orbit, IXPE will measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays to improve our understanding of the fundamental physics ...
Dalian coherent light source reveals the origin of interstellar medium S2 fragments
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
Forty years ago, the emission spectra of only CS and S2 species, and not those of CS2 species, were observed from several comets by the International Ultraviole...
Harnessing the power of AI to understand warm dense matter
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
Theoretical and numerical models are essential to evaluate these experiments, which are impossible to interpret without formulas, algorithms, and simulations. S...
National laboratories' look to the future of light sources with new magnet prototype
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
When it comes to building these massive facilities, space is money. If you can get higher-energy beams of light out of smaller devices, you can save millions on...
Exploring the dark universe
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
The simulation, called the Last Journey, follows the distribution of mass across the universe over time - in other words, how gravity causes a mysterious invisi...
How heavy is dark matter
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
Their findings - due to be published in Physics Letters B in March - radically narrow the range of potential masses for Dark Matter particles, and help to focus...
Precision measurements of intracluster light suggest possible link to dark matter
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
The first burst of new, precision ICL measurements appeared in a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal in April 2019. Another appeared more recently in M...
Metamaterial tiles boost sensitivity of large telescopes
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
The Simons Observatory is the center of an ambitious effort to measure the cosmic microwave background - electromagnetic radiation left over from an early stage...
Solar Orbiter snaps Venus, Earth and Mars
Jan 27, 2021 (ESA)
Three Solar System planets are visible in the foreground: Venus (left), Earth (middle), and Mars (right). Stars are visible in the background. Venus is the brig...
Roman Telescope will probe galaxy's core for hot Jupiters, brown dwarfs
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
"We were thrilled to discover that Roman will be able to offer even more information about the planets throughout our galaxy than originally planned," said Shot...
New galaxy sheds light on how stars form
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
But now an international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from the University of Bath in the UK and the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN) in ...
James Webb Space Telescope reaches final orbital destination
Jan 24, 2021 (UPI)
Operators on Earth fired Webb's thrusters at 2 p.m. EST to maneuver the observatory into a stable gravitational point, known as Lagrange Point 2 or L2, where it...
Alpha particles lurk at the surface of neutron-rich nuclei
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
Neutron stars are amongst the most mysterious objects in our universe. They contain extremely dense matter that is radically different from the ordinary matter ...
Astronomers dissect the anatomy of planetary nebulae using Hubble images
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the nebulae in 2019 and early 2020 using its full, panchromatic capabilities, and the astronomers involved in the project ...
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