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Why celestial bodies come in different sizes
Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)
Our solar system contains one massive object - the sun - and many smaller planets and asteroids. Now researchers from Duke University in Durham, N.C. have propo...
Celestial bodies born like cracking paint
Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)
A Duke theorist says there's a very good reason why objects in the universe come in a wide variety of sizes, from the largest stars to the smallest dust motes -...
New fast radio burst discovery finds 'missing matter' in the universe
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes identified the distant location of a fast radio burst (FRB) for the firs...
NASA's IBEX observations pin down interstellar magnetic field
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in thro...
Solved! First distance to a 'fast radio burst'
Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB), confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of radio ...
ATLASGAL survey of Milky Way completed
Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)
APEX, the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope, is located at 5100 metres above sea level on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama region. The ATLASGAL s...
The Prolonged Death of Light from Type Ia Supernovae
Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)
Three years after its explosion, a type Ia supernova continues to shine brighter than expected, new research finds. The observations, made with the Hubble Space...
Subaru-HiCIAO Spots Young Stars Surreptitiously Gluttonizing Their Birth Clouds
Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has used a new infrared imaging technique to rev...
The prolonged death of light from type Ia supernovae
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
Three years after its explosion, a type Ia supernova continues to shine brighter than expected, new research finds. The observations, made with the Hubble Space...
Galaxy trailed by stunning plume of gas
Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a spectacular tail of gas more than 300,000 light years across coming from a nearby galaxy. The plume is made up of hydrogen gas--th...
New clues in the hunt for the sources of cosmic neutrinos
Feb 19, 2016 (SPX)
The sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrinos that are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried in the Antarctic ice may be hidden from observation...
Astronomer detects new source of intense gamma-radiation in the sky
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
Analyzing the data collected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Maxim Pshirkov (The Sternberg Astronomical Institute, MSU) discovered a new source that conf...
New Clues in the Hunt for the Sources of Cosmic Neutrinos
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
The sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrinos that are detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory buried in the Antarctic ice may be hidden from observation...
Exploiting high speed light for super slow science
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the world's premier science conference - the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting - will this year be discuss...
Dark matter scientists on brink of discovering elusive particles
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
Technological advances are ushering in a new era of understanding in the search for fundamental physical particles - including dark matter - scientists will tel...
Astronomers use Hubble to find rare supernova 'impostor' in a nearby galaxy
Feb 13, 2016 (SPX)
Breanna Binder, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and lecturer in the School of STEM at UW Bothell, spends her d...
A star's moment in the spotlight
Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)
The glowing region in this new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is a reflection nebula known as IC 2631. These objects are clouds of cosmic dust that ...
Galactic Space Oddity Discovered
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers led by Aaron Romanowsky of San Jose State University has used the Subaru Telescope to identify a faint dwarf galaxy disrupt...
Scientists discover hidden galaxies behind the Milky Way
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor. Despit...
'Cannibalism' between stars
Feb 07, 2016 (SPX)
Stars are born inside a rotating cloud of interstellar gas and dust, which contracts to stellar densities thanks to its own gravity. Before finding itself on th...
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