STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo of a nearby starburst galaxy in unprecedented detail. A starburst galaxy is...

James Webb Space Telescope completes acoustic and vibration tests

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

For the acoustic test, the telescope was wrapped in a clean tent, and engineers and technicians pushed it through a large pair of insulated steel doors nearly a...

GUSTO Explorer Will Study Churning Chaos in Milky Way

Mar 28, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has selected a science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars. This data will h...

Andromeda Galaxy's Bright X-ray Mystery Solved by NuSTAR

Mar 28, 2017 (JPL)

The Milky Way's closest neighbor [of comparable size], [the] Andromeda [galaxy], features a dominant source of high-energy X-ray emission, but its identity was ...

Astronomers find unexpected, dust-obscured star formation in distant galaxy

Mar 28, 2017 (SPX)

Pushing the limits of the largest single-aperture millimeter telescope in the world, and coupling it with gravitational lensing, University of Massachusetts Amh...

New portal to unveil the dark sector of the universe

Mar 28, 2017 (SPX)

Once upon a time, the Universe was just a hot soup of particles. In those days, together with visible particles, other particles to us hidden or dark might have...

Milky Way-like galaxies in early universe embedded in 'super halos'

Mar 28, 2017 (SPX)

By harnessing the extreme sensitivity of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have directly observed a pair of Milky Way-like ga...

Astronomers Observe Early Stages of Milky Way-like Galaxies

Mar 28, 2017 (SPX)

For decades, astronomers have found distant galaxies by detecting the characteristic way their gas absorbs light from a bright quasar in the background. But eff...

Another reason to flip the off switch: light pollution

Mar 24, 2017 (AFP)

For the 11th year running, cities worldwide will turn their lights off Saturday to mark Earth Hour in a global call to action on climate change. But the moment ...

With astronomy rewind, citizen scientists will bring zombie astrophotos back to life

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

A new citizen-science project will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to l...

UV background could provide clues to missing galaxies

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultraviolet (UV) background of the universe, which could help explain why there are so few small galaxies in the ...

Astronomers hazard a ride in a 'drifting carousel' to understand pulsating stars

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

What sounds like a stomach-turning ride at an amusement park might hold the key to unravelling the mysterious mechanism that causes beams of radio waves to shoo...

When helium behaves like a black hole

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space - is also true for cold helium atoms that can be stu...

Tracing Aromatic Molecules in the Early Universe

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

A UC Riverside-led team of astronomers have taken us a step closer to better understand the formation and destruction mechanisms of dust molecules in the distan...

Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish ...

New Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new mosaic image of the Orion Nebula. Duri...

ALMA's Ability to See a Cosmic Hole Confirmed

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio "hole" around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion light-years awa...

USRA awarded NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy contract

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Universities Space Research Association (USRA), headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, has been awarded a contract to provide NASA with science and mission operat...

NASA's Webb Telescope Ghostly 'Lights Out' Inspection

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently houses NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? The technicians who are inspecti...

Distant galaxies are dominated by gas and stars so where is the Dark Matter

Mar 16, 2017 (SPX)

New observations of rotating galaxies at the peak epoch of galaxy formation, 10 billion years ago, surprisingly show that these massive, star-forming galaxies a...