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Construction complete, NASA to test Webb Telescope curvature
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
Engineers and technicians working on the James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the first important optical measurement of Webb's fully assembled pri...
Final Sunshield Layer Completed for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
The last of the five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. Designed by No...
OU-led team discovers rare, newborn tri-star system using ALMA
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
A rare triple-star system surrounded by a disk with a spiral structure has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma-led research team. Recent observations fr...
NASA missions harvest a passel of 'pumpkin' stars
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers using observations from NASA's Kepler and Swift missions have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 time...
WVU part of team that created detailed map of Milky Way
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Hydrogen. Atomic number 1. It is the simplest and lightest element on the periodic table, but don't be fooled by its humble appearance. With just a single proto...
ESO captures highest resolution image of Eta Carinae yet
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope Interferometer to image the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever achieved...
Cluster's Advanced Age in Razor-Sharp Focus
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers using advanced adaptive optics technology at the Gemini South telescope in Chile probed the depths of the highly compact globular cluster NGC 6624, ...
A dead star's ghostly glow
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
The eerie glow of a dead star, which exploded long ago as a supernova, reveals itself in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula. But don't be...
Cosmic horseshoe is not the lucky beacon
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
Although the universe started out with a bang it quickly evolved to a relatively cool, dark place. After a few hundred thousand years the lights came back on an...
Star system caught in the act of forming close multiples
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a ...
All-sky survey maps neutral hydrogen across Milky Way
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
Two of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescopes, the 100-m dish at Effelsberg/Germany and the 64-m Parkes/Australia telescope, mapped the detailed s...
Heartbeat Stars unlocked in new study
Oct 25, 2016 (JPL)
Matters of the heart can be puzzling and mysterious - so too with unusual astronomical objects called heartbeat stars. Heartbeat stars, discovered in large numb...
Mysterious cosmic objects erupting in x-rays discovered
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have found a pair of extraordinary cosmic objects that dramatically burst in X-rays. This discovery, obtained with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
In 1937, US physicist Isidor Rabi introduced a simple model to describe how atoms emit and absorb particles of light. Until now, this model had still not been c...
Scientists create most detailed map of the Milky Way
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Australian scientists have worked with researchers in Germany to create the most detailed map of the Milky Way, using the world's largest radio telescopes. The ...
Astronomers to explore mysteries of star formation with new camera
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
How do stars form deep inside clouds of molecular gas? What's the history of star formation throughout cosmic time? When did the first stars form? And how did t...
How Deadly Would A Nearby Gamma Ray Burst Be?
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
Despite the obvious doom and gloom associated with mass extinctions, they have a tendency to capture our imagination. After all, the sudden demise of the dinosa...
The Milky Way's ancient heart
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
A team led by Dante Minniti (Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile) and Rodrigo Contreras Ramos (Instituto Milenio de Astrofisica, Santiago, Chile) used obs...
Massive Cloud on Collision Course with the Milky Way
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
In 1963, an astronomy student named Gail Smith working at an observatory in the Netherlands discovered something odd-a massive cloud of gas orbiting the Milky W...
Who stole all the stars
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
Investigating the millions of missing stars from the centres - or cores - of two big galaxies, astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology say they may ha...
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