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Canadian ingenuity crafts game-changing technology for CHIME telescope
Sep 11, 2017 (SPX)
Unlike traditional telescopes, CHIME (short for the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) has no moving parts. The telescope, produced by 50 scientist...
LOFAR Radio Telescope Discovers Record-Breaking Pulsar
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
Pulsars are neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars that exploded as a supernova, which emit radio waves from their magnetic poles that sweep past Earth as...
'Extreme' Telescopes Find the 2nd-Fastest-Spinning Pulsar
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
A pulsar is the core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. In this stellar remnant, also called a neutron star, the equivalent mass of half a million ...
Stellar Corpse Sheds Light on Origin of Cosmic Rays
Sep 05, 2017 (SPX)
Discovered more than 100 years ago and considered a potential health risk to airplane crews and astronauts, cosmic rays are believed to be produced by shock wav...
Shocking Discovery Explains Powerful Novae
Sep 05, 2017 (SPX)
Employing two powerful telescopes, astronomers at Michigan State University have proven a theory that explains these super-luminous novae and other astronomical...
ALMA finds huge hidden reservoirs of turbulent gas in distant galaxies
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
"CH+ is a special molecule. It needs a lot of energy to form and is very reactive, which means its lifetime is very short and it can't be transported far. CH+ t...
A Closer Look at the Triggers of Cosmic Disaster
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
Comets colliding with Earth are among the more violent and extensive cosmic catastrophes that can befall our home planet. The best known such impact is the one ...
Scientists recover nova first spotted 600 years ago by Korean astrologers
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
A new study published by the journal Nature pinpoints the location of the old nova, which now undergoes smaller-scale "dwarf nova" eruptions. The work supports ...
Magnetic fields in distant galaxy are new piece of cosmic puzzle
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
Because of the time it takes light to travel such immense distances, astrophysicists observe cosmologically distant magnetic fields as they were 4.6 billion yea...
VLA reveals distant galaxy's magnetic field
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
The scientists used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to study a star-forming galaxy that lies directly between a more-dis...
Proposed Astrophysics Mission to Conduct the First Infrared Spectral Survey of the Entire Sky
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
If selected for construction and launch, the survey provided by the SPHEREx spacecraft could provide crucial insights into the origin and evolution of galaxies,...
Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
A newborn star is surrounded by a disc of gas and dust out of which planets form. In addition, there is a lot of remaining gas in star forming areas, which was ...
Kepler satellite discovers variability in the Seven Sisters
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope in its K2 Mission, the team has performed the most detailed study yet of the varia...
NASA's Webb Telescope will study our solar system's ocean worlds
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Europa and Enceladus are on the Webb telescope's list of targets chosen by guaranteed time observers, scientists who helped develop the telescope and thus get t...
UChicago scientists detect first X-rays from mystery supernovas
Aug 24, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists, including scholars from the University of Chicago, appear to have found the first X-rays coming from type Ia supernovae. Their findings ar...
Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphere
Aug 24, 2017 (ESO)
A team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka, of the Universidad Catolica del Norte in Chile, has now used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at t...
Webb telescope to study 'ocean worlds' in the solar system
Aug 24, 2017 (UPI)
The James Webb Space Telescope is the scientific complement to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and is the most powerful space telescope ever built, and the space...
A silent search for dark matter
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
"We are seeing very good quality data from this detector, which tells us that it is running perfectly," said Ethan Brown, a XENON1T Collaboration member, and as...
Scientists create 'diamond rain' that forms in the interior of icy giant planets
Aug 22, 2017 (SPX)
The glittering precipitation has long been hypothesized to arise more than 5,000 miles below the surface of Uranus and Neptune, created from commonly found mixt...
OU astrophysicist predicts detached, eclipsing white dwarfs to merge into exotic star
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
White dwarfs are the remnants of Sun-like stars, many of which are found in pairs, or binaries. However, only a handful of white dwarf binaries are known with o...
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