STELLAR CHEMISTRY

News About Stellar Chemistry

4,992 articles

Study reveals secret life of lithium in sun-like stars: Created not just destroyed
Jul 07, 2020 (SPX)
A new study led by Prof. ZHAO Gang and Dr. Yerra Bharat Kumar from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) provides a fresh un...
FAST detects neutral hydrogen emission from distant galaxies for first time
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
Recently, an international research team led by Dr. CHENG Cheng from Chinese Academy of Sciences South America Center for Astronomy (CASSACA) observed four extr...
A binary star as a cosmic particle accelerator
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
The team headed by DESY's Stefan Ohm, Eva Leser and Matthias Fubling is presenting its findings, made at the gamma-ray observatory High Energy Stereoscopic Syst...
ESO telescope captures the disappearance of a massive star
Jul 01, 2020 (SPX)
Between 2001 and 2011, various teams of astronomers studied the mysterious massive star, located in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, and their observations indicated it...
Array of radio telescopes reveals explosion on the surface of a hot dead star
Jun 30, 2020 (SPX)
Surprisingly, the source of gamma rays was a symbiotic nova, a peculiar stellar system known to astronomers as V407 Cyg. The result, with first author Marcello ...
The beautiful mess in Abell 2255
Jun 30, 2020 (SPX)
Thanks to the incredible detailed images obtained with the European radio telescope LOFAR, the scientists have been able to observe details never seen before of...
The nature of nuclear forces imprinted in photons
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
Atomic nuclei consist of nucleons - protons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons are systems of quarks and gluons held together by strong nuclear interactions. Th...
Case for axion origin of dark matter gains traction
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
The existence of dark matter has been confirmed by several independent observations, but its true identity remains a mystery. According to this study, axion vel...
Rogue's gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
The images were obtained over a period of four years by a precision instrument, the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), mounted on the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in...
NASA's TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
The system, known as AU Mic for short, provides a one-of-a-kind laboratory for studying how planets and their atmospheres form, evolve and interact with their s...
X-ray scattering enables closer scrutiny of the interior of planets and stars
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
The results hone previous measurements and reinforce the premise that the matter in planets like Neptune and Uranus can alter dramatically: the hot hydrocarbon ...
Scientists find cosmic object that may reshape our understanding of the biggest stars in the Universe
Jun 24, 2020 (SPX)
When the biggest stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars with less mass die, they explode in a supernova and l...
Strainoptronics: A new way to control photons
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
Such new photodetection can advance future communications and computer systems, especially in emerging areas such as machine learning and artificial neural netw...
Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itself
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
Topological materials, which were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2016, have the ability to "protect" the flow of waves through them against unwanted disorder and de...
Our Deepest View of the X-ray Sky
Jun 22, 2020 (SPX)
Most of the new sources are active galactic nuclei at cosmological distances, marking the growth of gigantic black holes over cosmic time. Clusters of galaxies ...
Hubble Provides Holistic View of Stars Gone Haywire
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers have found unprecedented levels of complexity and rapid changes in jets and gas bubbles blasting off of the stars at the centers of both nebulas...
X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
This artist's illustration depicts the object where astronomers discovered the X-ray flare. HOPS 383 is called a young "protostar" because it is in the earliest...
New Organic Molecule Discovered in Interstellar Cloud
Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)
The propargylimine has the chemical formula HCCCHNH and is an unstable compound. It is very difficult to isolate it in the ordinary conditions of the Earth's at...
A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's Brilliant
Jun 18, 2020 (JPL)
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted the young object on March 12, when it released a massive burst of X-rays. Follow-up studies by the European Space ...
Excess Events Seen in Dark Matter Experiment
Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)
The scientists do not claim to have found dark matter. Instead, they say to have observed an unexpected rate of events, the source of which is not yet fully und...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.