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The missing link between exploding stars, clouds, and climate on Earth
Dec 26, 2017 (SPX)
More cloud condensation nuclei mean more clouds and a colder climate, and vice versa. Since clouds are essential for the amount of Solar energy reaching the sur...
Telescopes team up to study giant galaxy
Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)
In research published this week, the international team of scientists used the telescopes to observe a nearby radio galaxy known as Centaurus A. "As the closest...
Chandra Reveals the Elemental Nature of Cassiopeia A
Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers have long studied exploded stars and their remains - known as "supernova remnants" - to better understand exactly how stars produce and then dissemi...
Unravelling the mysteries of extragalactic jets
Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)
Their study, published in Nature Astronomy, has found that these jets can be susceptible to an instability never before considered as important to the jet's flo...
Discovery of neutron star collision is 'breakthrough' of 2017
Dec 21, 2017 (AFP)
The smashup of the two ultra-dense stars observed on August 17 "confirmed several key astrophysical models, revealed a birthplace of many heavy elements, and te...
Scientists claim cosmic rays influence cloud cover, climate change
Dec 19, 2017 (UPI)
As cosmic rays rain down from space, they increase the number of ions in Earth's atmosphere, which, according to scientists at the Technical University of Denma...
Hubble's Celestial Snow Globe
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
The stars are residents of the globular star cluster Messier 79, or M79, located 41,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Lepus. The cluster is also ...
Major release of Southern Sky Astronomical Data now available
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
This is the first data release of its kind for the SkyMapper project, and follows many years of preparation by the ANU SkyMapper team and NCI. Astronomers wishi...
A new spin to solving mystery of stellar companions
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
While taking a picture of a small rocky planet like Earth is still not feasible, researchers have made strides by snapping images of about 20 giant planet-like ...
Dawn of a galactic collision
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
NGC 5256, also known as Markarian 266, is about 350 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) [1]. It is composed...
A better way to weigh millions of solitary stars
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Getting accurate measurements of how much stars weigh not only plays a crucial role in understanding how stars are born, evolve and die, but it is also essentia...
Scientific achievements during the operation of Lomonosov satellite
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
In the course of operation of Lomonosov satellite on the orbit the team of Skobeltsyn Scientific and Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, MSU received new dat...
Stellar Nursery Blooms into View
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
The region of sky pictured is listed in the Sharpless catalogue of H II regions: interstellar clouds of ionised gas, rife with star formation. Also known as Sh ...
Doing without dark energy
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
About 20 years ago, astronomers made a startling discovery: Not only is the universe expanding - as had been known for decades - but the expansion is speeding u...
Astronomers approve 86 new star names from around the world
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Traditionally, most star names used by astronomers have come from Arabic, Greek, or Latin origins. Now, the International Astronomical Union (IAU, Division C Wo...
Model of Galaxy and Star Cluster Formation Is Rectified
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
A new study by Brazilian researchers argues that astrophysicists' understanding of violent relaxation is wrong and sets out to correct it. Published in The Astr...
Neutron stars on the brink of collapse
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
Based on these observational data, an international team of scientists from Germany, Greece, and Japan including HITS astrophysicist Dr. Andreas Bauswein has ma...
RIT Professor to study cosmic evolution with Webb Telescope
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
Kartaltepe, assistant professor in RIT's School of Physics and Astronomy, is a leading member of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey team ...
Galaxy Orbits in the Local Supercluster
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The team reconstructed the galaxies' motions from 13 billion years in the past to the present day. The main gravitational attractor in the mapped area is the Vi...
How does it look when Earth is bombarded with dark matter?
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Planet Earth is constantly on the move, colliding with myriads of dark matter particles as it hurtles through space. Although no one has ever seen these mysteri...
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