STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Filming light and electrons coupled together as they travel under cover

Oct 13, 2016 (SPX)

In a breakthrough for future optical-electronic hybrid computers, scientists at EPFL have developed an ultrafast technique that can track light and electrons as...

The Milky Way's Ancient Heart

Oct 13, 2016 (SPX)

Ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, have been discovered in the centre of the Milky Way for the first time, using ESO's infrared VISTA telescope. RR Lyr...

Stellar ages in seconds

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

Living for billions and billions of years, it is no simple task to figure out how old a star is. Fortunately, despite appearances, earthquake-like pulsations ca...

Discovery: A new form of light

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

Glow-in-the-dark stickers, weird deep-sea fish, LED lightbulbs - all have forms of luminescence. In other words, instead of just reflecting light, they make the...

Using oxygen as a tracer of galactic evolution

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

A new study led by University of California, Riverside astronomers casts light on how young, hot stars ionize oxygen in the early universe and the effects on th...

Discovery of an extragalactic hot molecular core

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have discovered a 'hot molecular core,' a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside our Galaxy. The discove...

Detonating white dwarfs as supernovae

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

A new mathematical model created by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History details a way that dead stars called white dwarfs could detonate, ...

VISTA finds ancient star cluster in Milky Way center

Oct 12, 2016 (UPI)

With the help of the European Southern Observatory's infrared VISTA telescope, astronomers have discovered a cluster of ancient stars at the center of the Milky...

Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star

Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)

Great balls of fire! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star...

How to control polarization of light

Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)

The results of this case can be used in the manufacture of the so-called spatial light modulators serving as a base for all LCDs, for example. They are arranged...

What Swings a Star Around - Another Star or a Distant Planet?

Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and led by a graduate student member of SOKENDAI (The Graduate University of Advanced Studies, J...

Are planets setting the sun's pace?

Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)

The Sun's activity is determined by the Sun's magnetic field. Two combined effects are responsible for the latter: The omega and the alpha effect. Exactly where...

DarkLight enables visible light communication in the dark

Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)

With the rise in wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers that rely on smart sensors, and the continued popularity of smartphones, smart devices are ...

Milkway's most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought

Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)

A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the...

New oscillating material may tap unused electromagnetic spectrum

Oct 03, 2016 (UPI)

The terahertz gap is an unused portion of the electromagnetic spectrum comprising frequencies between radio waves and infrared radiation. No technologies curren...

Where Primordial Galaxies Lurk

Sep 30, 2016 (JPL)

In the ongoing hunt for the universe's earliest galaxies, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has wrapped up its observations for the Frontier Fields project. This a...

ALMA catches stellar cocoon with curious chemistry

Sep 30, 2016 (SPX)

A hot and dense mass of complex molecules, cocooning a newborn star, has been discovered by a Japanese team of astronomers using ALMA. This unique hot molecular...

Spiral Arms Embrace Young Star

Sep 30, 2016 (SPX)

Swirling around the young star Elias 2-27 is a stunning spiral-shape pinwheel of dust. This striking feature, seen with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimet...

Discovery of an Extragalactic Hot Molecular Core

Sep 30, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have discovered a 'hot molecular core,' a cocoon of molecules surrounding a newborn massive star, for the first time outside our galaxy. The discove...

NASA's Fermi Finds Record-Breaking Binary in Galaxy Next Door

Sep 30, 2016 (SPX)

Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other facilities, an international team of scientists has found the first gamma-ray binary in another...