STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)

Q: What kind of conditions do Webb and its instruments need to withstand? Paul: The entire observatory must survive the mechanically stressing conditions from t...

Massive primordial galaxies found swimming in vast ocean of dark matter

Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)

Ongoing observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), however, have discovered surprising examples of massive, star-filled galaxies...

Webb Telescope emerges from Chamber A at JSC

Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)

This move outside the chamber brings Webb one step closer to its journey to Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, where it will be in...

Microscopy: A space-time sensor for light-matter interactions

Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)

The most basic of all physical interactions in nature is that between light and matter. This interaction takes place in attosecond times (i.e. billionths of a b...

Model of galaxy and star cluster formation is rectified

Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)

A new study developed by Brazilian researchers and published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that astrophysicists' understanding of violent relaxation is wr...

Why is massive star formation quenched in galaxy centers?

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

All the star forming material in galaxies should have been turned into stars when the universe had only a fraction of its present age, 13,8 billion years. Howev...

Texas Astronomers Will Lead Early Studies with $8 Billion James Webb Space Telescope

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

Steven Finkelstein, an associate professor of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, leads one of the chosen Early Release Science projects as principa...

Scientists make transparent materials absorb light

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

The absorption of electromagnetic radiation - light, among other things - is one of the main effects of electromagnetism. This process takes place when electrom...

MUSE probes uncharted depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

This groundbreaking dataset has already resulted in 10 science papers that are being published in a special issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. This wealth of ...

Chinese satellite closes in on dark matter mystery

Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)

Likely made up of unknown sub-atomic material, dark matter is invisible to telescopes and can be perceived only through its gravitational pull on other objects ...

First proper motions measured of stars in a small galaxy outside the Milky Way

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers have long been able to measure the movement of stars in our 'line of sight' (i.e. the movement towards or away from us) by measuring the redshift, w...

First finding of China's DAMPE may shed light on dark matter research

Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)

DAMPE is a collaboration of more than a hundred scientists, technicians and students at nine institutes in China, Switzerland and Italy, under the leadership of...

What's slowing the universe's star formation rate?

Nov 29, 2017 (UPI)

According to the Standard Model of the universe, the cosmos should have reached peak star formation several billion years ago. All the stars in the universe sho...

Hubble and Gaia team up to measure 3-D stellar motion with record-breaking precision

Nov 29, 2017 (ESA)

Astronomers from the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute and Leiden Observatory, both in the Netherlands, used data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA'...

Icebound detector reveals how ghostly neutrinos are stopped cold

Nov 28, 2017 (SPX)

Now, in a critical measurement that may one day help predict new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics - the model that seeks to explain the fun...

By saving cost and energy, the lighting revolution may increase light pollution

Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)

An international study led by Christopher Kyba from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience lends proof to this hypothesis. According to the paper in Scie...

How the Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks

Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)

Now, scientists have demonstrated that the Earth stops energetic neutrinos - they do not go through everything. These high-energy neutrino interactions were see...

House hunting for the supernova event SN 2015J

Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)

It is a happy ending story for SN 2015J, a supernova event so brilliant and peculiar but without any clear host galaxy. First observed on April 27, 2015, at the...

How Do You Find A Star Cluster? Easy, Simply Count The Stars

Nov 23, 2017 (ESA)

In the latter years of the 18th century, astronomers William and Caroline Herschel began to count stars. William called the technique "star gauging" and his aim...

MIT team design $100 handheld muon detector

Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)

Muons last only fractions of a second, and during their fleeting lifespan they can be found through every layer of the Earth's atmosphere, circulating in the ai...