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How to reach Alpha Centauri in just 20 years
Apr 12, 2016 (AFP)
Billionaire Russian investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha C...
Physicists discover rare brown dwarf, essential for testing theoretical models
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
A team led by Justin Crepp, the Frank M. Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered a rare brown dwarf, a faint obj...
NASA celebrates 25 years of breakthrough gamma-ray science
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
Twenty-five years ago this week, NASA launched the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, an astronomical satellite that transformed our knowledge of the high-energy sk...
RadioAstron Observations of the Extremely Hot Heart of Quasar 3C 273
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
The space mission RadioAstron employing a 10-meter radio telescope on board of the Russian satellite Spektr-R has revealed the first look at the finest structur...
An Oasis in the brown dwarf desert - astronomers surprised, relieved
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
A new paper published this month in The Astronomical Journal by astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reports a wellspring of new brown dwarf ste...
Proof that ancient supernovae zapped Earth sparks hunt for after effects
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
Two new papers appearing in the journal Nature this week are "slam-dunk" evidence that energies from supernovae have buffeted our planet, according to astrophys...
Hubble's journey to the center of our galaxy
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
Peering deep into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. Except for a few b...
Researchers demonstrate a new way to characterize twisted light
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Rochester have overcome experimental challenges to demonstrate a new way for getting a full picture of twisted light: character...
Andromeda's first spinning neutron star
Apr 04, 2016 (ESA)
Decades of searching in the Milky Way's nearby 'twin' galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutro...
Trigger for Milky Way's Youngest Supernova Identified
Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF's Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supern...
INTEGRAL sets limits on gamma rays from merging black holes
Apr 01, 2016 (ESA)
Following the discovery of gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays, just as mo...
UWM to continue operating IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)
The National Science Foundation has renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) to operate the IceCube Neutrino Observ...
Seeking the origin of gold in the universe
Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)
So you think the gold in your ring or watch came from a mine in Africa or Australia? Well, think farther away. Much, much farther. Michigan State University res...
Hunting the ghost of the universe
Mar 30, 2016 (XNA)
Hunting in the darkness of the universe, the hunters still don't know how their prey looks like or when and where it might pop up. Their best clues are hidden i...
Magnetar could have boosted explosion of extremely bright supernova
Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)
Calculations by scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two extremely un...
Our sun could also be a superflare star
Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)
The Earth is often struck by solar eruptions. These eruptions consist of energetic particles that are hurled away from the Sun into space, where those directed ...
Tracing star formation rates in distant galaxies
Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)
When we think of a galaxy the first thing that comes to our minds is an assembly of stars. Indeed, the stars of a galaxy are one of its most important character...
A New Way to Determine the Age of Stars
Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have developed a new conceptual framework for understanding how stars similar to our Sun evolve. Their framework helps explain how the rotation of s...
The wilds of the local group
Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)
Rather like an uncontacted tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest or on an island in Oceania, WLM offers a rare insight into the primordial nature of galaxi...
Most 'outrageously' luminous galaxies ever observed
Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the Universe, objects so bright th...
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