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New theory of secondary inflation expands options for dark matter excess
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
Standard cosmology - that is, the Big Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as inflation - is the prevailing scientific model for our un...
A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind
Jan 15, 2016 (ESA)
ESA's XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce...
Counting Photons; How Low Can You Go
Jan 15, 2016 (SPX)
The process of detecting light-whether with our eyes, cameras or other devices-is at the heart of a wide range of civilian and military applications, including ...
The most energetic light ever observed from a few kilometers large star
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists working with the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory have reported the discovery of the most energetic pulsed emission ...
Runaway stars leave infrared waves
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
In the last year, astronomers from the University of Wyoming have discovered roughly 100 of the fastest-moving stars in the Milky Way galaxy with the aid of ima...
First global age map of the Milky Way
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Using completely new ways of deducing the ages of so-called red giant stars from observational data, astronomers have created the first large-scale map that sho...
A New Way to Explore Dark Matter
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Ripples in gas at the outer disk of our galaxy have puzzled astronomers since they were first revealed by radio observations a decade ago. Now, astronomers beli...
Novel metasurface revolutionizes ubiquitous scientific tool
Jan 10, 2016 (SPX)
What do astrophysics, telecommunications and pharmacology have in common? Each of these fields relies on polarimeters - instruments that detect the direction of...
Ancient Gas Cloud May Be Relic from First Stars
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
Saint Michael's College physics professor John O'Meara has teamed with researchers Neil Crighton and Michael Murphy from Australia in the recent discovery of a ...
Former COD Student Working in Antarctica on IceCube Neutrino Project
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
Former College of DuPage student Robert Zill is spending his winter break at the bottom of the world. The Burr Ridge resident is currently in Antarctica as part...
Most distant massive galaxy cluster identified
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
The early universe was a chaotic mess of gas and matter that only began to coalesce into distinct galaxies hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. It ...
Galaxy Quakes Could Improve Hunt for Dark Matter
Jan 08, 2016 (SPX)
A trio of brightly pulsating stars at the outskirts of the Milky Way is racing away from the galaxy and may confirm a method for detecting dwarf galaxies domina...
NASA Telescopes Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae
Jan 07, 2016 (JPL)
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th centur...
VLA Reveals New Evidence About Star, Planet Formation
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
A detailed study of young stars and their surroundings has produced dramatic new evidence about how multiple-star systems form and how the dusty disks that are ...
40-Year-Old Mystery on Size of Shadowy Galaxies Solved
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Using the world's largest telescopes, researchers have discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early universe. The discovery was announce...
Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of stars
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of stars - Finding to impact understanding of stellar evolution. An international group of astronomers led by the ...
Runaway Stars Leave Infrared Waves in Space
Jan 06, 2016 (JPL)
Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Exp...
Strong magnetic fields in the cores of many stars
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Using a recently developed technique to detect magnetic fields inside stars, a group of astronomers - including Matteo Cantiello and Lars Bildsten from UC Santa...
Rotational clock for stars needs recalibration
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
New work from a team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Jennifer van Saders indicates that one recently developed method for determining a star's age needs to be ...
Aging stars stop slowing down
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
At a critical point in the life of a star like the Sun its rotation stops 'slowing down', according to research published in the journal Nature by University of...
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