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Scientists take viewers to the center of the Milky Way
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
The Earth is located about 26,000 light years, or about 150 trillion miles, from the center of the Galaxy. While humans cannot physically travel there, scientis...
Organic molecule benzonitrile detected in space
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
It also sheds light on the composition of aromatic material within the interstellar medium - material that will eventually be incorporated into new stars and pl...
ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
The spacecraft, known as the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS for short, is a new NASA-funded space telescope. The mission, including spacecraft...
New stellar streams confirm 'melting pot' history of the galaxy
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
Tell-tale evidence comes from streams of stars created when small galaxies interact with the Milky Way. Eleven new stellar streams, discovered in data from the ...
Extremely bright and fast light emission
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
Three years ago, Maksym Kovalenko, a professor at ETH Zurich and Empa, succeeded in creating nanocrystals - or quantum dots, as they are also known - from this ...
Swarm of hydrogen clouds flying away from center of our galaxy
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
The results are presented at the 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. "The center of the Milky Way is a special place," notes ...
SCHOTT begins manufacturing primary mirrors for ELT
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
The result is ZERODUR glass-ceramic, a material with a thermal expansion of near zero that makes it especially suited to astronomy applications. The SCHOTT prod...
First Pepsi Data Release
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
Spectral atlases are the fingerprints of stars and give insights into almost all of their physical properties like temperature, pressure, velocities and chemica...
Hubble's Barred and Booming Spiral Galaxy
Jan 08, 2018 (SPX)
It is classified as an active galaxy, which means that it hosts an active galactic nucleus, or AGN: a compact region at a galaxy's center within which material ...
Keck Observatory Achieves First Light with NIRES Spectrometer
Jan 08, 2018 (SPX)
The Keck Observatory-Caltech NIRES team just completed the instrument's first set of commissioning observations and achieved "first light" with a spectral image...
NASA's Webb Telescope to investigate mysterious brown dwarfs
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
Several research teams will use Webb to explore the mysterious nature of brown dwarfs, looking for insight into both star formation and exoplanet atmospheres, a...
Weighing massive stars in nearby galaxy reveals excess of heavyweights
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
The discovery, made in the gigantic star-forming region 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, has 'far-reaching' consequences for our understanding o...
New data debunks alien megastructure theory on the 'most mysterious star in the universe'
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
It is about 50 percent bigger and 1,000 degrees hotter than the Sun. It is more than 1,000 light years away. However, it has been inexplicably dimming and brigh...
Library of Galaxy Histories Reconstructed from Motions of Stars
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has derived directly, for the first time, the orbital distribution of a galaxy sample, containing more than 300 galaxies of...
Alien megastructure not the cause of dimming of the 'most mysterious star in the universe'
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
KIC 8462852, or "Tabby's Star," nicknamed after Boyajian, is otherwise an ordinary star, about 50 percent bigger and 1,000 degrees hotter than the Sun, and abou...
Cosmic dust, not 'alien megastructure,' veils mysterious star
Jan 03, 2018 (AFP)
But a study out Wednesday, compiled by more than 100 scientists who have been observing the star named KIC 8462852, puts the alien rumors to rest. "Dust is most...
NASA's Flying Observatory SOFIA to Explore Magnetic Universe and Beyond
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
This will be the fourth year of full operations for SOFIA, with observations planned between February 2018 and January 2019. Research flights will be conducted ...
A particle like slow light
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Now, once again, there has been a breakthrough in this field of research, with researchers at TU Wien being the first to successfully detect Weyl particles in s...
A New Stellar X-ray Reality Show Debuts
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
This three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) project with augmented reality (AR) allows users to explore inside the debris from actual observations of the supern...
Midwife and signpost for photons
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
Nanometre-sized "optical antennas" are a well-known approach. They are capable of sending photons in a specific direction with high efficiency. The idea goes ba...
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