STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

A new key to understanding molecular evolution in space

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at Hokkaido University have revealed temperature-dependent energy-state conversion of molecular hydrogen on ice surfaces, suggesting the need for a r...

Chandra Finds Evidence for Violent Stellar Merger

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are some of the most violent and energetic events in the universe. Although these events are the most luminous explosions in the univ...

Small Elliptical Galaxy Actually a Giant Disk

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy. Ellipticals are the most common type o...

New detector at South Pole shows early success at neutrino hunting

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

In the second it takes to read these words, 65 billion neutrinos will shoot through every square centimeter of your body. Luckily, these infinitesimal particles...

A 'matryoshka' in the interstellar medium

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

As if it were one of the known Russian dolls, a group of astronomers, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (IAC) has found the first ...

Blue Is an Indicator of First Stars' Supernova Explosions

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

For 100 million years after the big bang, the universe was dark and filled with hydrogen and helium. Then, the first stars appeared, and heavier elements (refer...

World's most sensitive dark matter detector completes search

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills ...

Stellar outburst brings water snowline into view

Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)

A violent outburst by the young star V883 Orionis has given astronomers their first view of a water "snowline" in a protoplanetary disk - the transition point a...

'Frankenstein' Galaxy Surprises Astronomers

Jul 25, 2016 (JPL)

About 250 million light-years away, there's a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable. But now, scientists have unco...

Dark Matter Particle Remains Elusive

Jul 24, 2016 (SPX)

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment has yielded no trace of a dark matter particle after completing its final 20-month long search of the u...

X marks the spot at the center of the Milky Way galaxy

Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)

Two astronomers - with the help of Twitter - have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central...

Human eyes can detect the smallest units of light

Jul 21, 2016 (UPI)

New research suggest the human eye is remarkably sensitive to light. In a recent study, participants were able to detect the presence of a single photon inside ...

Why Galaxies Stop Creating Stars

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have studied 70,000 galaxies across cosmic time to find out why some cease generating stars. The processes that cause galaxies to "quench," (cease s...

Precise 3D Map of Galaxies Supports Standard Cosmological Model

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the collaboration Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) have presented this week the latest results obtained from the map obtained ...

ALMA makes first sighting of water snow line around young star

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Young stars are often surrounded by dense, rotating discs of gas and dust, known as protoplanetary discs, from which planets are born. The heat from a typical y...

Dark Energy Measured with Map of over 1 Million Galaxies

Jul 17, 2016 (SPX)

A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed t...

Massive 3D map of faraway galaxies to aid search for dark energy

Jul 14, 2016 (UPI)

Dark energy -- the mysterious force responsible for the expansion of the universe -- remains elusive, but researchers hope a new 3D map of distant galaxies will...

Hordes of Low-Mass Objects in the Orion Nebula

Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)

ESO's HAWK-I infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has been used to peer deeper into the heart of Orion Nebula than ever before. The sp...

Surprise: Small elliptical galaxy actually a giant disk

Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have believed since the 1960s that a galaxy dubbed UGC 1382 was a relatively boring, small elliptical galaxy. Ellipticals are the most common type o...

Supercomputers fire lasers to shoot gamma ray beam

Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)

Ever play with a magnifying lens as a kid? Imagine a lens as big as the Earth. Now focus sunlight down to a pencil tip. That still wouldn't be good enough for w...