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Supernova Reserve Fuel Tank Clue to Big Parents
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
Some supernovae have a reserve tank of radioactive fuel that cuts in and powers their explosions for three times longer than astronomers had previously thought....
How Far Away Are Our Stellar Neighbors?
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
In April 2016 the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) released a catalog of distances to over 112 thousand stars, the USNO Parallax Catalog (UPC), using grou...
Allan Sandage's last paper unravels 100-year-old astronomical mystery
May 19, 2016 (SPX)
Carnegie's Allan Sandage, who died in 2010, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. His final paper, published posthumously, focuses on...
Other Suns Got the Right Spin
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
Astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have for the first time measured the rot...
Manchester astronomers detect helium-3 4000 light years away
May 17, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers from The University of Manchester, together with collaborators from the Centro de Astrobiologia and the Deep Space Network, Spain and the ...
Chandra movie captures expanding debris from stellar explosion
May 17, 2016 (SPX)
When the star that created this supernova remnant exploded in 1572, it was so bright that it was visible during the day. And though he wasn't the first or only ...
Scientists discover new form of light
May 17, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers in Ireland have discovered a new form of light. Their discovery is expected to reshape scientists' understanding of light's basic nature. Angular mo...
Metal Content in Early Galaxies Challenges Star Forming Theory
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
An International team led by scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents...
Did Star Formation Regulation Change as the Universe Evolved
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
An international team led by scientists at the Subaru Telescope and Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observa...
How light is detected affects the atom that emits it
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious. A physici...
Bright dusty galaxies are hiding secret companions
May 10, 2016 (SPX)
A new University of Sussex study has cleared the air on what lies behind hot dust visible in the distant universe. Researchers found that the glow of heated dus...
Stochastic resonance, chaos transfer shown in microresonator
May 10, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a novel route to encode chaos on light in an ...
Silicate stardust traces histories of dust in the galaxy
May 10, 2016 (SPX)
NASA scientists are revealing the histories of dust particles from dying stars that roved the Galaxy for millions of years before the sun and planets formed. Th...
Interstellar spacecraft sails could slam on Brakes for exoplanet flybys
May 05, 2016 (Sputnik)
Scientists in the UK and Germany have come up with a quicker way to brake spacecraft on interstellar missions, by combining magnetic and electric sails. Interst...
Fermi telescope helps link cosmic neutrino to blazar blast
May 04, 2016 (SPX)
Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418 produced a powerful outburst. Light from this blast began arriving ...
Powerful Winds Spotted From Mysterious X-ray Binaries
May 03, 2016 (ESA)
ESA's XMM-Newton has discovered gas streaming away at a quarter of the speed of light from very bright X-ray binaries in two nearby galaxies. At X-ray wavelengt...
Russian Doll Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's Planck and a large list of optical telescopes to develop a powerful new method for inves...
Winds a quarter the speed of light spotted leaving mysterious binary systems
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
Two black holes in nearby galaxies have been observed devouring their companion stars at a rate exceeding classically understood limits, and in the process, kic...
Possible extragalactic source of high-energy neutrinos
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
Nearly 10 billion years ago in a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418, a dramatic explosion occurred. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now, an in...
Nearby supernova 30M years ago equaled detonation of 100 million suns
May 03, 2016 (SPX)
A giant star that exploded 30 million years ago in a galaxy near Earth had a radius prior to going supernova that was 200 times larger than our sun, according t...
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