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Atomic-Scale Imaging Helps Date Planetary Events
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Communications, uses a new atomic-scale imaging approach to locate and count individual atoms in planetary materials. Directly li...
Measured for the first time: Direction of light waves changed by quantum effect
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
After much speculation spanning a long period of time, one variant of this type of effect has now been demonstrated at TU Wien for the first time. Rather than s...
Volunteers help ANU find star that exploded 970 million years ago
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
ANU has invited everyone with an interest in astronomy to join the University's search for exploding stars called supernovae, which scientists can use to measur...
How tornado-shaped flow in a dynamo strengthens the magnetic field
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
A new simulation based on the von-Karman-Sodium (VKS) dynamo experiment, run jointly by the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the National Center for Scien...
CAST project places new limitations on dark matter
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
A team of international scientists from the project CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at the European research center CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, including Pro...
Scientists Solve Mystery of How Most Antimatter in the Milky Way Forms
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
Antimatter is material composed of the antiparticle partners of ordinary matter - when antimatter meets with matter, they quickly annihilate each other to form ...
ASKAP telescope to rule radio-burst hunt
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery came so quickly that the telescope, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) near Geraldton in Western Australia, looks set to bec...
Secondary Mirror of European Extremely Large Telescope Cast
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
ESO's 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be the largest telescope of its kind ever built when it achieves first light in 2024. A new milestone has no...
First Result from XENON1T Dark Matter Detector
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
Dark matter is one of the basic constituents of the universe, five times more abundant than ordinary matter. Several astronomical measurements have corroborated...
Punching Above Its Weight, Brown Dwarf Launches Parsec-Scale Jet
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
Intrinsically faint, brown dwarfs have been more elusive and difficult to study than stars. Although they are often portrayed as exotic creatures as a result, b...
Sandra Faber Receives $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The citation praises Faber for "her groundbreaking studies of the structure, dynamics, and evolution of galaxies." That work has led to the widespread acceptanc...
First array release of images taken with MeerKAT 32
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
During the Minister's visit to the exhibition, SKA SA Chief Scientist Dr. Fernando Camilo and SKA SA Head of Science Commissioning Dr. Sharmila Goedhart, releas...
A Ground-Breaking Tool to Reconstruct the History of Galaxies
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
"Fado" derives from the Latin Fatum, which means fate or destiny, and it's a tribute to Portugal's immaterial cultural heritage type of music of the same name. ...
Mapping the Magnetic Bridge Between Our Nearest Galactic Neighbors
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Visible in the southern night sky, the LMC and SMC are dwarf galaxies that orbit our home galaxy and lie at a distance of 160,000 and 200,000 light-years from E...
Fermi Satellite Observes Billionth Gamma Ray with LAT Instrument
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
On April 12, one of the spacecraft's instruments - the Large Area Telescope (LAT), which was conceived of and assembled at the Department of Energy's SLAC Natio...
Hubble catches a galaxy duo by the 'hare'
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
This particular object stands out from the crowd by actually being composed of two separate galaxies rushing past each other at about 2 million kilometers (1,24...
Research increases distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on Earth
May 12, 2017 (SPX)
Melott has followed up since those findings with an examination of the effects of the supernovae on Earth's biology. In new research to appear in Astrophysical ...
Telescopes team up for dramatic new look at the crab nebula
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion seen by Chinese and other astronomers in the year 1054, is some 6,500 light-years from Earth. At its...
NASA delivers detectors for ESA's Euclid spacecraft
May 10, 2017 (JPL)
The detector systems are key components of NASA's contribution to this upcoming mission to study some of the biggest questions about the universe, including tho...
James Webb Space Telescope Arrives at NASA's Johnson Space Center
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
The telescope was loaded onto a trailer truck from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and moved slowly down a highway by the Webb team t...
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