STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Giant Magellan Telescope will answer mnay major questions

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which is currently being built in Chile, is poised to answer essential questions about the universe, according to the newly ...

The end of a star or a supernova impostor

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Massive stars end their lives in supernova explosions, highly energetic events that can be as luminous as the entire starlight from their host galaxies. However...

Dark Matter Detection Receives 10-Ton Upgrade

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

In an abandoned gold mine one mile beneath Lead, South Dakota, the cosmos quiets down enough to potentially hear the faint whispers of the universe's most elusi...

Bevy of quasars boosts understanding of galaxies' origins

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Late last year, an international team including researchers from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University announced the di...

New survey finds 'Peter Pan' radio galaxies that may never grow up

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies - galaxies powered by newly energized black holes. The improved tally will h...

New material helps record data with light

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Russian physicists with their colleagues from Europe through changing the light parameters, learned to generate quasiparticles - excitons, which were fully cont...

First public data released by hyper suprime-cam Subaru Strategic Program

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

The first massive data set of a "cosmic census" has been released using the largest digital camera on the Subaru Telescope. With its beautiful images now availa...

Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the universe was only four percent of its present age. This galaxy wa...

Star Clusters Discovery Could Upset the Astronomical Applecart

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

The discovery of young stars in old star clusters could send scientists back to the drawing board for one of the universe's most common objects. Dr. Bi-Qing For...

Iota Orionis: Pulsating beacon of a constellation

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers from the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation project and Ritter Observatory have discovered a repeating one-per-cent spike in the light of ...

Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolises

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

Galaxies have dramatically grown in size since the early Universe, and elliptical galaxies, in particular, are the largest galaxies in both size and mass. What ...

HERA Radio Telescope Attracts Even More International Funding

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) radio telescope, located only a few kilometres from the MeerKAT radio telescope, was awarded a grant from the Go...

Cosmic environments and their influence in star formation

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in comp...

A new look at the nature of dark matter

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

The nature of the dark matter which apparently makes up 80% of the mass of the particles in the universe is still one of the great unsolved mysteries of present...

Star clusters discovery could upset the astronomical applecart

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

The discovery of young stars in old star clusters could send scientists back to the drawing board for one of the Universe's most common objects. Dr Bi-Qing For,...

A new cosmic survey offers unprecedented view of galaxies

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

The universe has come into sharper focus with the release this week of new images from the one of the largest telescopes in the world. A multinational collabora...

Yale-led team puts dark matter on the map

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter ever created, offering a detailed case for the existence of cold dark matter - sl...

Hubble cooperates on galaxy cluster and cosmic background

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by obse...

Probing seven worlds with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James Webb Space Telesco...

Substantial leap forward in quest for dark matter

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

New research, submitted for publication by the PICO Collaboration, has produced new direct-detection constraints on the existence of WIMPs (weakly interacting m...