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Searching for Orphan Stars Amid Starbirth Fireworks
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
A new Gemini Observatory image reveals the remarkable "fireworks" that accompany the birth of stars. The image captures in unprecedented clarity the fascinating...
How do atoms alter during a supernova explosion?
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
A research group from Osaka University, in collaboration with an international research team, successfully realized in laboratory the world of exotic atoms unde...
'Fossils' of galaxies reveal the formation and evolution of massive galaxies
Sep 28, 2015 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich observed massive dead galaxies in the universe 4 billion years after...
Dark energy probe involving U-M reaches critical milestone
Sep 28, 2015 (SPX)
A giant instrument that will create a high-definition, 3-D map of a swath of the universe going back 10 billion light-years has just reached a critical mileston...
Hubble zooms in on shrapnel from an exploded star
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Ca...
Discovery of potential gravitational lenses shows citizen science value
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
Around 37,000 citizen scientists combed through 430,000 images to help an international team of researchers to discover 29 new gravitational lens candidates thr...
A cosmic rose with many names
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
The nebula pictured here may have had more names bestowed upon it over the ages than any other object of its kind. Although officially known as Messier 17, its ...
Hot, dense material surrounds O-type star with largest magnetic field known
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
Observations using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the unusually large magnetosphere around an O-type star called NGC 1624-2 contains a raging st...
Radio telescopes could spot stars hidden in the galactic center
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a mysterious place. Not only is it thousands of light-years away, it's also cloaked in so much dust that most stars within...
A shy galactic neighbor
Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, pictured in this new image from the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESO's La Silla Observat...
Scientists conduct most precise test of light speed
Sep 15, 2015 (UPI)
The speed of light is a constant. A new test -- the most precise test of a photon's speed -- confirms it. The results of the test support the concept of Lorentz...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Gamma-ray pulsars are remnants of explosions that end the lives of massive stars. They are highly-magnetized and rapidly rotating compact neutron stars. Like a ...
Stellar discovery by Queen's researcher
Sep 13, 2015 (SPX)
PhD candidate Matt Shultz has discovered the first massive binary star, epsilon Lupi, in which both stars have magnetic fields. A binary star is a star system c...
NIST physicists show 'molecules' made of light may be possible
Sep 13, 2015 (SPX)
It's not lightsaber time, not yet. But a team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken another ...
NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart
Sep 11, 2015 (JPL)
Astronomers have discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster whose heart is bursting with new stars. The unexpected find, made with the help of NASA's Spitzer a...
Lowly dwarf galaxy becomes star-forming powerhouse
Sep 10, 2015 (SPX)
A nearby dwarf galaxy poses an intriguing mystery: How is it able to form brilliant star clusters without the dusty, gas-rich environments found in larger galax...
Parsing photons in the infrared
Sep 10, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers from the University of California, Irvine and Baltimore's Space Telescope Science Institute have generated the most accurate statistical description...
Dark matter: CRESST searches for 'lightweights'
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
The Earth, planets, stars, and galaxies form only the visible portion of the matter in the universe. Greater by far is the share accounted for by invisible "dar...
Farthest galaxy detected
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
A team of Caltech researchers that has spent years searching for the earliest objects in the universe now reports the detection of what may be the most distant ...
Using Stellar 'Twins' to Reach the Outer Limits of the Galaxy
Sep 04, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new, highly accurate method of measuring the distances between stars, which could be used to measu...
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