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Join the celebration of a hundred years under one sky with IAU
Dec 24, 2018 (SPX)
With 100 established IAU100 National Committees and more than 700 activities already registered in 72 different countries, the IAU is preparing for a year full ...
Stellar corpse reveals clues to missing stardust
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
When stars die, they seed the cosmos around them with the elements that go on to coalesce into new stars, planets, asteroids and comets. Most everything that ma...
Faint glow within galaxy clusters illuminates dark matter
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
Utilizing Hubble's past observations of six massive galaxy clusters in the Frontier Fields program, astronomers demonstrated that intracluster light - the diffu...
Sapphires and Rubies in the Sky
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
"Perhaps it shimmers red to blue like rubies and sapphires, because these gemstones are aluminum oxides which are common on the exoplanet," says Caroline Dorn, ...
Key milestone for Euclid Mission, now ready for final assembly
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
The critical design review (CDR) board meeting took place on 21 November in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. While the individual elements of Euclid - the spacecraft...
Cosmic ray telescope launches from Antarctica
Dec 20, 2018 (UPI)
The SuperTIGER instrument, or Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder, was designed to detect cosmic rays, high-energy particles that stream through space. O...
NEOWISE satellite observes adolescent star going through a growth spurt
Dec 19, 2018 (UPI)
NEOWISE's observation reflect those made by European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, the spacecraft that first identified the star. The two datasets collected by...
Young Star Caught in a Fit of Growth
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Typically, these stars, which are less than a few million years old, are hidden behind thick clouds of dust and hard to observe. This new object is only the 25t...
Scientists design new material to harness power of light
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
The team - which includes collaborators from UMass Lowell, King's College London, Paris Diderot University and the University of Hartford -has created a new cla...
Massive New Dark Matter Detector Gets Its 'Eyes'
Dec 18, 2018 (SPX)
The first of two large arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) - powerful light sensors that can detect the faintest of flashes - completed a 2,000-mile journey ...
Hubble goes deep
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
With the addition of ultraviolet light imagery, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the largest panoramic view of the fire and f...
The data revolution in the night sky
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
Astroinformatics is a young discipline that owes its rise to computers: Digital hardware and software have revolutionized astronomy in the last twenty years. Th...
Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
At the core of these active galaxies, supermassive black holes launch high-speed jets of plasma - a hot, ionized gas - that shoot millions of light-years into s...
Fragmenting disk gives birth to binary star 'odd couple'
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
The main, central star of this system, which is located approximately 11,000 light-years from Earth, is truly colossal - a full 40 times more massive than the S...
Webb Telescope will provide census of fledgling stars in stellar nursery
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
NGC 346 is a nearby proxy for the myriad star-forming regions that existed when the universe was ablaze with star formation just a few billion years after the b...
Astronomers find that dark matter dominates across cosmic time
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
Dark matter is matter that does not give off any light, but is detectable by its gravitational pull on other matter. It was first discovered in the 1970s in stu...
Teledyne e2v's delivery of 125 science-grade sensors completes contract for world's most powerful survey telescope
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
Identified as a US national scientific priority by the 2010 USA National Research Council decadal survey, LSST will carry out a 10-year survey of 37 billion sta...
NASA's first stellar observatory, OAO 2, turns 50
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
Formally known as the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) 2 and nicknamed Stargazer, it would become NASA's first successful cosmic explorer and the direct ...
Russian-German Astrophysics Observatory launch now scheduled for April 2019
Dec 10, 2018 (Sputnik)
"The launch of Proton-M space rocket with Blok DM-03 upper stage and a scientific laboratory Spektr-RG is planned for the first 10 days of April 2019," the sour...
Honeycomb mirrors make Webb the most powerful Space Telescope ever
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
Their honeycomb like arrangement allows for Webb to have the largest possible reflective surface area to make observations, with the least amount of dead space ...
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