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Squeezed states of light can improve feedback cooling significantly
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
How does the tightrope walker manage to maintain her balance and avoid that fatal drop from the sky? She carefully senses the motion of her body and vibrations ...
'Thank the aliens': Thousands displaced for China's huge telescope
Nov 30, 2016 (AFP)
Humanity's best bet at detecting aliens is a giant silver Chinese dish the size of 30 football fields -- one that simultaneously showcases Beijing's abilities t...
Mystery of Ultra-Diffuse Faint Galaxies Solved
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Over the last year, researchers have observed some very faint, diffuse galaxies. The galaxies are as faint as dwarf galaxies, but are distributed over an area j...
New method developed for analyzing photonic crystal structure
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
A new technique developed by MIT researchers reveals the inner details of photonic crystals, synthetic materials whose exotic optical properties are the subject...
Shear brilliance: computing tackles the mystery of the dark universe
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from The University of Manchester working on a revolutionary telescope project have harnessed the power of distributed computing from the UK's GridPP...
Squeezing light into new miniature devices
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
Do you think your computer is fast enough? Think again. The computers of the future could work almost at the speed of light! Nanophotonics, the study of light a...
Stellar Simulators
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
It's an intricate process through which massive stars lose their gas as they evolve. And a more complete understanding could be just calculations away, if only ...
New stars discovery shed new light on Galaxy's formation
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
An astronomer from LJMU's Astrophysics Research Institute has discovered a new family of stars in the core of the Milky Way Galaxy which provides new insights i...
IAU Formally Approves 227 Star Names
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
The creation of a specialised IAU Working Group, the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN), was approved by the IAU Executive Committee in May 2016 to formalise st...
Spiral-like patterns of star formation discovered in old galaxies
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Using data from the SDSS1 and CALIFA2 surveys, a team3 of astronomers, led by Jean Michel Gomes and Polychronis Papaderos from the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ci...
Large number of dwarf galaxies discovered in the early universe
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers, led by University of California, Riverside astronomers, found for the first time a large population of distant dwarf galaxies that could ...
A Stellar Circle of Life
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
A snapshot of the stellar life cycle has been captured in a new portrait from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA). ...
Record-Breaking Faint Satellite Galaxy Discovered
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers from Tohoku University has found an extremely faint dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The team's discovery is pa...
X-ray pulsars fade as propeller effect sets in
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astrophysicists including Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), MIPT, and Pulk...
Bright radio bursts probe Universe's hidden matter
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoc...
Flash of invisible light helps astronomers map the cosmic web
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through Space to reach an Australian radio telescope last year has given ...
Silicon nanoantennas turn light around
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
A team of physicists from ITMO University, MIPT, and The University of Texas at Austin have developed an unconventional nanoantenna that scatters light in a par...
Astronomers unveil 'heart' of Eta Carinae
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has imaged the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever. Eta Carinae is a colossal binary system that consists o...
Distant star is roundest object ever observed in nature
Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)
Stars are not perfect spheres; several mechanisms can change their shape. One mechanism is rotation: the more quickly a star rotates, the more flat it becomes d...
Supercluster of galaxies found hidden by the Milky Way
Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has discovered a previously unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the V...
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