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New technology offers to broaden vision for radio astronomy
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
Looking nothing like a camera or other traditional imaging technologies - like CCDs in optical telescopes or single receivers in radio telescopes - this new Pha...
Research casts doubt on theories of star formation
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
This is according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Cardiff University, who have found that long-held assumptions about the rel...
Stellar thief is the surviving companion to a supernova
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
"We know that the majority of massive stars are in binary pairs," said Stuart Ryder from the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) in Sydney, Australia and ...
FAST's first discovery of a millisecond pulsar
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
FAST, world's largest single-dish radio telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered more tha...
Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy - and beyond
Apr 26, 2018 (ESA)
A multitude of discoveries are on the horizon after this much awaited release, which is based on 22 months of charting the sky. The new data includes positions,...
Astronomers witness galaxy megamerger
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
This ancient megamerger is destined to evolve into one of the most massive structures in the known universe: a cluster of galaxies, gravitationally bound by dar...
Webb Telescope could detect the first stars and black holes
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
However, new theoretical work suggests that under the right circumstances, and with a little luck, NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will be able to ca...
To see the first-born stars of the universe
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
However, astronomers at Arizona State University are leading a team of scientists who propose that with good timing and some luck, the Webb Space Telescope will...
Window on the Sky Opened with Release of 3-D Map of a Billion Stars
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
In the year 1610 one person on the planet, Galileo Galilei, used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it was composed of a huge number of fain...
Where is the Universe's missing matter?
Apr 25, 2018 (ESA)
All the matter in the Universe exists in the form of 'normal' matter or the notoriously elusive and invisible dark matter, with the latter around six times more...
Uncovering the secret law of the evolution of galaxy clusters
Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)
Now, an international collaboration between Yutaka Fujita at Osaka University and researchers from Taiwan, Italy, Japan, and the United States found a new funda...
NASA teams study Agency's future in astrophysics
Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)
Already, teams of experts from across the agency, academia, and industry are studying four potential flagship missions that the science community has vetted as ...
New mechanism of radio emission in neutron stars revealed
Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)
Neutron stars are some of the most amazing astronomical objects as their density is second only to black holes. Inside neutron stars, there are no individual at...
Galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Co-researcher Professor Matthew Colless from ANU said that stars in a young galaxy moved in an orderly way around the galaxy's disk, much like cars around a rac...
Hubble telescope has helped scientists better understand the cosmos
Apr 24, 2018 (UPI)
"When I was a grad student 30 years ago, we were arguing about the size and scale of the universe," NASA scientist Dr. Jeff Hayes told UPI. Hayes has said those...
Attosecond physics: Molecules brilliantly illuminated
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Molecules are the building blocks of life. Like all other organisms, we are made of them. They control our biorhythm, and they can also reflect our state of hea...
Structured light and nanomaterials open new ways to tailor light at the nanoscale
Apr 23, 2018 (SPX)
In particular, the teams have shown that the efficiency of nonlinear optical fields (e.g., second-harmonics) generated from the oligomers is strongly influenced...
Creating star stuff on earth is aim of new $7 million project
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
The DOE/NNSA grant, distributed over a five-year period, will allow the university to establish a new Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties (CAPP), which a...
Atomic Lego guides light below one nanometer
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
At the same time, there has also been a race to further shrink devices that control and guide light. Light can function as an ultra-fast communication channel, ...
Ultrafast electron oscillation and dephasing monitored by attosecond light source
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
As high-speed shutter cameras capture motions of fast-moving objects, researchers generally use laser (pulse) like instantaneous strobe light in order to observ...
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