STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

New Dutch Supercomputer Studies Colliding Galaxies

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

A team of Dutch scientists has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The Little Green Machine II has the computing power of 10,000 PCs and will be...

Device boosts interaction between light and motion

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

Optomechanical devices, which simultaneously confine light waves and mechanical waves to permit interaction between them, can be used both to study fundamental ...

OCTOCAM Looks Toward a New Era of Discovery

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

"The instrument will be able to rapidly acquire transient objects and simultaneously obtain eight images or spectral bands from each target," according to Goods...

ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks

Apr 10, 2017 (ESO)

1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies a dense and active star formation factory called the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), pa...

Study detects doubly accelerated electrons in collisions of galaxy clusters

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

A cosmic phenomenon on a colossal scale, resulting from the acceleration of a gas cloud by a black hole and its reacceleration by the shock waves from the mergi...

Breakthrough Telescope to Map Origins of Stars, Galaxies and the 'Cosmic Dawn'

Apr 06, 2017 (SPX)

A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is headed to South America. With a slated completion date...

Mysterious cosmic explosion puzzles astronomers

Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)

A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from som...

Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space

Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)

Fast Radio Bursts present one of modern astronomy's greatest mysteries: what or who in the Universe is transmitting short bursts of radio energy across the cosm...

Hubble's double galaxy gaze: Leda and NGC 4424

Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)

Some astronomical objects have endearing or quirky nicknames, inspired by mythology or their own appearance. Take, for example, the constellation of Orion (The ...

Shadow of Gas Cloud Detected in Ancient Proto-Supercluster

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and others, has used the ...

Satellite galaxies at edge of Milky Way coexist with dark matter

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how gal...

Wispy remains of supernova explosion hide possible 'survivor'

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable brightness lets astronomers measure the expa...

Speeding star gives new clues to breakup of multi-star system

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

A remarkable new discovery using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals three stars that now hold the record as the youngest-known examples of a super-fast-flyin...

Satellite Galaxies at Edge of Milky Way Coexist with Dark Matter

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how gal...

Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky'

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Earlier this month, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reached an important milestone by opening its "second eye on the sky" - a new instrument called the "APO...

Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according to a Hungarian-American team. The researchers believe that standa...

Mysterious cosmic explosion surprises astronomers studying the distant x-ray universe

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from som...

Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Plasma, the ionised state of matter found in stars, is still not fully understood, largely due to its instability. Astrophysicists have long-since sought to dev...

NuSTAR probes puzzling galaxy merger

Mar 30, 2017 (JPL)

A supermassive black hole inside a tiny galaxy is challenging scientists' ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one. Was 49 is the name of a system ...

New, highly accurate positions and motions available for millions of stars

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) has released a new catalog of over 107 million stars, the 5th USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC5). This catalog of ab...