STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

NRL brightens perspective of mysterious mini-halos

Aug 04, 2017 (SPX)

Studying this phenomenon is Dr. Tracy Clarke, a radio astronomer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Radio Astrophysics and Sensing Section and co-autho...

Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere

Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)

"This result is exciting because it shows that a common trait of most of the atmospheres in our solar system - a warm stratosphere - also can be found in exopla...

New simulations could help in hunt for massive mergers of neutron stars, black holes

Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)

Working with an international team, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed new computer mo...

Running out of gas: Gas loss puts breaks on stellar baby boom

Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)

The stellar birthrate peaked around 10 billion years ago, and has declined steadily since then. However, the cause of the declining stellar birthrate is still n...

NASA continues to study pulsars, 50 years after their chance discovery

Aug 02, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell made the chance discovery using a vast radio telescope in Cambridge, England. Although it was built to measure the random brightness fli...

Astronomers discover Heavy Metal supernova

Aug 01, 2017 (SPX)

Supernovas are some of the most energetic events in the universe. When a massive star runs out of fuel, it can collapse onto itself and create a spectacular exp...

NASA tests Webb Telescope's communication skills

Aug 01, 2017 (SPX)

GSEG-1, which completed on June 20, tested all of the communications systems required to support the telescope's launch, commissioning and normal operations onc...

Scientists Unveil New 3D View of Galaxies

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

For many years astronomers have struggled to get good-quality 3D data of galaxies. Although this technique is very powerful as it allows researchers to "dissect...

Galactic David and Goliath

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Galaxies come in a range of shapes and sizes, and astronomers use this fact to classify them based on their appearance. NGC 1512, the large galaxy to the left i...

Astrophysicists map out the light energy contained within the Milky Way

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

This research, conducted by astrophysicists at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), in collaboration with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for ...

A Tale of Three Stellar Cities

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

OmegaCAM - the wide-field optical camera on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) - has captured the spectacular Orion Nebula and its associated cluster of young sta...

Webbcam Shows Webb Telescope Chilling in Chamber A

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

You can view this contrast yourself by checking out the new temperature overlay on the Webbcam. With the Webb telescope locked away inside Chamber A, you won't ...

Massive star's dying blast caught by rapid-response telescopes

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

The blast of the dying star released in about 40 seconds as much energy as the Sun releases over its entire lifetime, all focused into a tight beam of gamma ray...

Using powerful Dark Energy Camera, scientists reach the cosmic dawn

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

Long ago, about 300,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was f...

Milky Way's origins are not what they seem

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

Using supercomputer simulations, the research team found a major and unexpected new mode for how galaxies, including our own Milky Way, acquired their matter: i...

Cosmologists produce new maps of dark matter dynamics

Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)

Using advanced computer modelling techniques, the research team has translated the distribution of galaxies into detailed maps of matter streams and velocities ...

Gamma-Ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail

Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)

Using a wide array of ground- and space-based telescope observations, an international team led by University of Maryland astronomers constructed one of the mos...

Dark matter is likely cold not fuzzy

Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists have never directly detected dark matter. But over decades, they have proposed a variety of theories about what type of material - from new particles...

Flashes of light on the dark matter

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

In order to study its properties, scientists analyzed the interaction of the "cosmic web" - a network of filaments made up of gas and dark matter present in the...

Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

Superluminous supernovae are 10 to 100 times brighter than a typical supernova resulting from the collapse of a massive star. But astronomers still don't know e...