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Magnetic fields force new perspective on center of Milky Way
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
The research, presented this week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (https://aas.org/meetings/aas236), could help answer longstanding mysteries ...
Scientists detect crab nebula using innovative gamma-ray telescope
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) - developed by scientists at the Columbia University in collaboration with researchers from other institution...
Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
Fast radio bursts - the hottest topic in astronomy right now - were first detected in 2007, but astronomers are still working out what could make such a brief s...
DARPA selects teams for work on tunable gamma ray inspection technology
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
Lumitron Technologies and RadiaBeam Technologies started work on the GRIT program in April and are exploring novel approaches to achieve high-intensity, tunable...
Astronomers capture a pulsar 'powering up'
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
The research, led by PhD candidate Adelle Goodwin from the Monash School of Physics and Astronomy will be featured at the American Astronomical Society meeting ...
The Milky Way has one very hot halo, astronomers find
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
The new findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held online this week because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In previous ...
Hot stars are plagued by giant magnetic spots, ESO data shows
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
The findings, published in Nature Astronomy, help astronomers better understand these puzzling stars and open doors to resolving other elusive mysteries of stel...
Making matter out of light: High-power laser simulations point the way
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
Now, a new set of simulations by a research team led by UC San Diego's Alexey Arefiev point the way toward making matter from light. The process starts by aimin...
Now complete, Telescope Instrument is poised to begin its search for answers about dark energy
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
DESI is designed to gather the light of tens of millions of galaxies, and several million ultrabright deep-sky objects called quasars, using fiber-optic cables ...
K-State study reveals asymmetry in spin directions of galaxies
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
Lior Shamir, a K-State computational astronomer and computer scientist, presented the findings at the 236th American Astronomical Society meeting in June 2020. ...
Mergers between galaxies trigger activity in their core
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
They were able to compile about ten times more images of merging galaxies than previous studies by using a machine-learning algorithm. The results were publishe...
Fresh Antimatter Study Will Help Search for Dark Matter
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
The antideuteron is composed of an antiproton and an antineutron. The new measurements are important because the presence of antideuterons in space is a promisi...
Cosmic bursts unveil Universe's missing matter
May 28, 2020 (SPX)
Lead author Associate Professor Jean-Pierre Macquart, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said ast...
New infrared telescope to help find Universe's hidden treasures in real time
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
DREAMS - the Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey - will be located at the historic Siding Spring Observatory in northern New South Wales. The telescope will b...
Two More Rare, Explosive Events Captured as 'Cow' mystery strikes back
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
The 'Koala,' which is a nickname derived from the tail end of its official name ZTF18abvkwla, suddenly appeared as a bright new source in the optical sky before...
Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
After astronomers visually spotted a bright burst in a tiny galaxy 500 million lightyears away from Earth in 2016, a Northwestern University-led team has determ...
Astronomers see 'cosmic ring of fire,' 11 billion years ago
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
"It is a very curious object that we've never seen before," said lead researcher Dr Tiantian Yuan, from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astroph...
ALMA Spots Twinkling Heart of Milky Way
May 25, 2020 (SPX)
"It has been known that Sgr A* sometimes flares up in millimeter wavelength," tells Yuhei Iwata, the lead author of the paper published in the Astrophysical Jou...
NASA's Webb will study the 'building blocks' of our solar system
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
"What's great about asteroids is that there are so many of them," said Rivkin. "It means there is always something bright enough and in the right place for Webb...
How cosmic rays may have shaped life
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
In a new paper, a Stanford professor and a former post-doctoral scholar speculate that this interaction between ancient proto-organisms and cosmic rays may be r...
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