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Study Explains Why Galaxies Stop Creating Stars
Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)
Galaxies come in three main shapes - elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way) and irregular. They can be massive or small. To add to this mix, galaxies can al...
Exploring a Frozen Extrasolar World
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have "cracked" a very cold case with the dissection of light from the coldest known brown dwarf. In fact, the brown dwarf, named WISE 0855, is bille...
Hitomi Finds Quiet Space in the Heart of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
In its brief time gathering data this year, the Hitomi X-ray Observatory discovered something quite serene: the calm core in a massive cluster of galaxies. Scie...
Researchers Help Explain How Stars Are Born, Cosmic Structures Evolve
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Working with information sent from the Japanese Hitomi satellite, an international team of researchers that include Stanford scientists has obtained the first v...
Zooming In on Why Some Quasars Turn Down the Radio
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Mini-jets of material ejected from a central supermassive black hole appear to be the culprits behind faint radio wave emissions in 'radio-quiet' quasars. A stu...
For Galaxies, It's Not Easy Being Green
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists may have answered why green galaxies are rare in our universe and why their color could reveal a troubled past. Their research is presented 30 June a...
Ring of Complex Organic Molecules Discovered Around Newborn Star
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a rotating ring containing large organic molecules around a protostar....
Universe becoming cleaner as cosmic dust gets mopped up by stars, astronomers reveal
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
The Universe is becoming gradually cleaner as more and more cosmic dust is being mopped up by the formation of stars within galaxies, an international team of a...
Space Team Discovers Universe Is Self-Cleaning
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers have released a gazetteer of the hidden universe, which reveals the unseen sources of energy found over the last 12 billion...
Minor galactic mergers are major drivers of star formation
Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)
Around half of the star formation in the local universe arises from minor mergers between galaxies, according to data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The pat...
Researchers devise new tool to measure polarization of light
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampl...
Scientists model universe with Full General Relativity
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding of the evo...
Relics of the Milky Way's First Generation of Stars
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
The first stars that made up the Milky Way have long burnt out, but astronomers have, for the first time, observed a new set of chemical elements that formed in...
Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts: A 3D Step Toward Standard Candles
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
A new way to use the most powerful explosions in the Universe to calibrate its expansion has been developed by a team of researchers (Sergey Postnikov, Xavier H...
First Wind Nebula Found Around a Magnetar
Jun 24, 2016 (ESA)
Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first tim...
Successful first observations of galactic center with GRAVITY
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
The GRAVITY instrument is now operating with the four 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope, and even from early test results it is already cl...
Ultrasharp Image Uncovers Shocking Lives of Young Stars
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
The world's most advanced adaptive optics system reveals "shocking" details on star formation in a new image released by the Gemini Observatory. An unprecedente...
Astrophysicists release new study of one of the first stars
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
No one has yet observed the first stars that formed in the Milky Way. In all likelihood, they will never be directly observed, because the first stars are massi...
Let there be light
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
University of Utah materials science and engineering associate professor Mike Scarpulla wants to shed light on semiconductors - literally. Scarpulla and senior ...
ALMA Observes Most Distant Stellar Oxygen Ever
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), detected a clear signal from oxygen in a galaxy located 13.1 billion light-years away...
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