STELLAR CHEMISTRY - NANO DAILY

Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)

NASA's planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has captured the brilliant flash of an exploding star's shock wave - what astronomers call the "shock breakout...

First Discovery of a Binary Companion for a Type Ia Supernova

Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)

A team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin's Howie Marion has detected a flash of light from the companion to an exploding star. This is the...

Astrophysicists catch 2 supernovae at the moment of explosion

Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of astrophysicists led by Peter Garnavich, professor of astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame, has caught two supernovae in the act...

The center of the Milky Way

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have been mapping the centre of our galaxy in very-high-energy gamma rays using these telescopes - the most sensitive of their kind - for over 10 ye...

Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star

Mar 22, 2016 (JPL)

The brilliant flash of an exploding star's shockwave - what astronomers call the "shock breakout" - has been captured for the first time in visible light by NAS...

Astronomers Discover Colossal 'Super Spiral' Galaxies

Mar 22, 2016 (JPL)

A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness. Dubbed "super spirals," these unprecedented galaxies dwarf our own spiral galaxy...

China's dark-matter satellite concludes in-orbit testing

Mar 21, 2016 (XNA)

China's first dark-matter detection satellite has completed three months of in-orbit testing, with initial findings expected to appear before the end of the yea...

Astronomers found a star with a record variation period

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

The Lomonosov Moscow State University astronomers who created a global network of robotelescopes MASTER detected that a bright star TYC 2505-672-1 has actually ...

Burning like the Sun

Mar 21, 2016 (ESA)

Engineers building parts of a new type of power plant for generating green energy with nuclear fusion are using their expertise from building rockets like Europ...

Cosmic rays accelerating to unprecedented speeds at centre of Milky Way

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

For more than ten years the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries, has been mapping the cent...

Students map Milky Way with dwarf stars

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

Two astronomy students from Leiden University have mapped the entire Milky Way galaxy in dwarf stars for the first time. They show that there are a total of 58 ...

SDU researchers present a new model for what dark matter might be

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Dark matter is all around us. Though no one has ever seen it, and no one knows what it really is, indisputable physical calculations state that approximately 27...

Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of stars

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

One of the main predictions of the current model of the creation of structures in the universe, known at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, is that galaxies are...

Gaia science alerts are back

Mar 14, 2016 (ESA)

While scanning the sky to measure the position and velocity of a billion stars, ESA's Gaia satellite also records many 'guest stars' - astronomical sources that...

Dust grains could be remnants of stellar explosions billions of years ago

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

Microscopic dust particles have been found in meteoritic material on Earth, particles that were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before th...

KIT simulation analyzes cosmic rays

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

When cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosphere, their high-energy primary particles generate an 'air shower' of secondary particles. These cascades of particles pr...

ALMA Spots Baby Star's Growing Blanket

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

A research team, led by Yusuke Aso (a graduate student at the University of Tokyo) and Nagayoshi Ohashi (a professor at the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomi...

The realm of buried giants

Mar 03, 2016 (SPX)

RCW 106 is a sprawling cloud of gas and dust located about 12 000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Norma (The Carpenter's Square). The region g...

Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat

Mar 03, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our M...

Explosive start not needed for fast radio bursts

Mar 03, 2016 (SPX)

After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun - 10 millisecond-long "fast radio b...