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Smallest galaxies are yielding big answers
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team led by Yale University postdoctoral researcher Hakim Atek recently discovered more than 250 distant galaxies, including some of t...
Magnetic hide and seek
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time, astrophysicists are able to determine the presence of strong magnetic fields deep inside pulsating giant stars. Magnetic fields have importa...
Astronomers peer inside stars, finding giant magnets
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have for the first time probed the magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetized. Using a technique...
Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have compiled the largest astronomical image to date. The picture of the Milky Way contains 46 billion pixels. In ord...
Final kiss of 2 stars heading for catastrophe
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found the hottest and most massive double star with components so close that they to...
Satellite with UNH components sheds new light on solar system boundary
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists, including seven from the University of New Hampshire, present findings from six years of direct observations made by NASA's Interstellar B...
IBEX sets standard for understanding galactic material around solar system
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) reached a milestone in its seven-year mission today with the publication of 14 papers in a special issue of The Ast...
First discovery of a magnetic field in a normal delta Scuti star
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Coralie Neiner, from the Observatoire de Paris (LESIA/CNRS/UPMC/Universite Paris Diderot) and Patricia Lampens, from the Royal Observatory of Belgium discovered...
IBEX sheds new light on solar system boundary
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
In 14 papers published in the October 2015 Astrophysical Journal Supplement, scientists present findings from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mi...
First movie of stellar-surface evolution beyond our Solar System
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), present for the first time a movie that shows the evolution of stellar spots on a star ot...
Dust particles from afar
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
When in 1990 the solar probe Ulysses embarked on its 19-year-long exploration tour, the participating researchers turned their attention not only to our Sun, bu...
A cosmic sackful of black coal
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
The Coalsack Nebula is located about 600 light-years away in the constellation of Crux. This huge, dusky object forms a conspicuous silhouette against the brigh...
ALMA Unveils Rapid Star Formation in Distant Galaxies
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Galaxies forming stars at extreme rates nine billion years ago were more efficient than average galaxies today, researchers find. The majority of stars have bee...
Researchers discover distant galactic halos
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that halos of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies' disks are much more common than...
Listening to the Extragalactic Radio
Oct 14, 2015 (SPX)
CHANG-ES, the "Continuum Halos in Nearby Galaxies, an EVLA Survey" project, brings together scientists from all over the globe in order to investigate the occur...
VLA Reveals Spectacular Halos of Spiral Galaxies
Oct 14, 2015 (SPX)
A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that "halos" of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies' disks are much more common th...
Peeking into our galaxy's stellar nursery
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have long turned their telescopes, be they on satellites in space or observatories on Earth, to the wide swaths of interstellar medium to get a look...
Southampton researchers find a new way to weigh a star
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars - highly magnetised rotating neutron stars formed f...
Japanese, Canadian win Nobel Physics Prize
Oct 06, 2015 (AFP)
Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for resolving a mystery about neutrinos, a fundamental but...
A Fresh Perspective on an Extraordinary Cluster of Galaxies
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerations of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter and represent the largest st...
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