STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Young Heavyweight Star Identified in the Milky Way

Aug 24, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have identified a young star, located almost 11,000 light-years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the universe are ...

Stellar Lab In Sagittarius

Aug 24, 2016 (SPX)

The small smattering of bright blue stars in the upper left of this vast new 615 megapixel ESO image is the perfect cosmic laboratory in which to study the life...

Supernova ejected from the pages of history

Aug 24, 2016 (SPX)

A new look at the debris from an exploded star in our galaxy has astronomers re-examining when the supernova actually happened. Recent observations of the super...

Gaia's second anniversary marked by successes and challenges

Aug 23, 2016 (ESA)

Operating in the depths of space, far beyond the Moon's orbit, ESA's Gaia spacecraft has now completed two years of a planned five-year survey of the sky. Despi...

Observatory Measures Oxygen in Galaxy 12 Billion Years Ago

Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)

UCLA astronomers have used the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii, to make the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant galaxy...

Discovery of a time-resolved supernova signal in Earth's microfossils

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Physicists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in detecting a time-resolved supernova signal in the Earth's microfossil record. As the ...

Neutrinos, ever bizarre, enjoy the spotlight

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Buzzing through space, through our bodies, virtually everywhere, are billions upon billions of neutrinos. Behind only photons as the most abundant fundamental p...

NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on the ground and in spac...

DDO 68: Among Galaxies, A Flea, But A Voracious One

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

Even a dwarf galaxy with very low mass is capable of accreting smaller nearby galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Francesca Annib...

The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Some of the most abundant particles in the universe are the so-called ghost particles, neutrinos, which travel through virtually anything on their journey throu...

IceCube search for the 'sterile neutrino' draws a blank

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, science has been conducting a diligent search for a hypothesized particle known as...

Scientists discover light could exist in a previously unknown form

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

New research suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both. According to th...

IceCube Search for 'Sterile Neutrino' Draws a Blank

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

In an effort to fill in the blanks of the Standard Model of particle physics, science has been conducting a diligent search for a hypothesized particle known as...

A Giant Stellar Void in the Milky Way

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

A major revision is required in our understanding of our Milky Way Galaxy according to an international team led by Prof Noriyuki Matsunaga of the University of...

Mapping the exotic matter inside neutron stars

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

The recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by two merging black holes by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up a new observational window int...

Faint Hisses from Space Reveal Famous Star's Past

Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have managed to peer into the past of a nearby star millions of years before its famous explosion, using a telescope in remote outback Australia at ...

Jupiter's great red spot heats planet's upper atmosphere

Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from Boston University's (BU) Center for Space Physics report in Nature that Jupiter's Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy re...

Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE

Jul 28, 2016 (JPL)

Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendous growth spurt. The unusual object, called ...

White dwarf lashes red dwarf with mystery ray

Jul 28, 2016 (ESA)

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with other telescopes on the ground and in space, have discovered a new type of exotic binary star:...

Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way galaxy's 'halo'

Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the...